AUTHOR=Flórez-Zapata Nathalia M. V. , Reyes-Valdés M. H. , Hernandez-Godínez Fernando , Martínez Octavio TITLE=Transcriptomic landscape of prophase I sunflower male meiocytes JOURNAL=Frontiers in Plant Science VOLUME=5 YEAR=2014 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2014.00277 DOI=10.3389/fpls.2014.00277 ISSN=1664-462X ABSTRACT=
Meiosis is a form of specialized cell division that generates gametes, allowing recombination of alleles and halving the chromosome number. Arabidopsis and maize are the plant models that have been most extensively studied to determine the genes involved in meiosis. Here we present an RNA-seq study in which gene expression in male meiocytes isolated during prophase I was compared to that in somatic tissues of the sunflower HA89 line. We sampled more than 490 million gene tags from these libraries, assembled them