About this Research Topic
A major goal of this article collection is to provide an overview of how meiotic chromosomes and their components are critically involved in the mechanisms of haploidization and how dynamic protein complexes yield important structural intermediates and temporal regulation to this process. We welcome submissions of original articles, mini-reviews and review articles dealing with the composition, architecture, function and regulation of meiotic chromosomes of animals, plants and fungi using microscopic, biochemical, molecular, genetic and/or ‘omic’ techniques.
The present article collection covers, but is not limited to, studies on:
-Meiotic chromatin and epigenetic modifications
-Meiotic centromeres and chromosome segregation
-Meiotic telomeres, nuclear envelope and chromosome dynamics
-Axial structures and meiotic cohesin complexes
-Synaptonemal complexes and synapsis regulation
-Recombination nodules and recombination process
-Checkpoint control of meiotic chromosome dynamics
-Meiotic chromosome adaptations and evolution
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