Zygotene (from greek "paired threads"[1]) is the second stage of prophase I during meiosis, the specialized cell division that reduces the chromosome number by half to produce haploid gametes. It follows the Leptotene stage.
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Zygotene (from greek "paired threads") is the second stage of prophase I during meiosis, the specialized cell division that reduces the chromosome number...
homologues (to a distance of ~400 nm in mice). Leptotene is followed by the zygotene stage, also known as zygonema, from Greek words meaning "paired threads"...
to mitotic prophase. Prophase I is divided into five phases: leptotene, zygotene, pachytene, diplotene, and diakinesis. In addition to the events that occur...
to the inner membrane of the nuclear envelope. At the transition to the zygotene stage, the telomeres usually aggregate at a sector of the nuclear envelope...
reduces chromosome number by half to produce haploid gametes. It follows the zygotene stage. During pachytene, the homologous chromosomes are fully synapsed...
begin to form and they initiate and complete their pairing during the zygotene stage. After pachynema ends, the SC usually becomes disassembled and can...
and chiasma frequency was measured. Irradiation during the leptotene-zygotene stages of meiosis (that is, prior to the pachytene period in which crossover...
(1977). "Three-dimensional reconstruction of chromosome pairing during the zygotene stage of meiosis in Lilium longiflorum (thunb.)". Carlsberg Research Communications...
two identical chromatids connected by a common centromere. During the zygotene stage of prophase I, the homologous chromosomes pair up with each other...
preleptotene spermatocytes, and spermatocytes in the meiotic stages of leptotene, zygotene and early pachytene are enriched for FANC proteins. This finding suggests...
whereas DNA repair is not detectable in the pre-dictyate (leptotene, zygotene and pachytene) stages of meiosis. For those primary oocytes that continue...
relocation/movement, moving meiotic chromosomes to find their homologues at leptotene/zygotene, attaching the centrosome to the outer nuclear membrane, formation of the...
damage, whereas DNA repair was not detected in the pre-dictyate (leptotene, zygotene and pachytene) stages of meiosis. The long period of meiotic arrest at...
are present during leptotene phase of prophase I during meiosis. During zygotene phase of prophase I, the chromomeres of homologs align with each other...
repair synthesis in male meiotic cells of lilies and rodents during the zygotene–pachytene stages of meiosis when crossing over was presumed to occur. The...
spematogonial mitoses and during the early stages of meiosis (leptotene-early zygotene stages) caused a significant increase in chiasmata frequency when scored...
single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) that becomes decorated with DMC1. From mid-zygotene to early pachytene, as part of the recombinational repair process, DMC1...
their hybrids. When C. brunneus was exposed to X-irradiation during the zygotene-early pachytene stages of meiosis, this treatment caused a significant...
and chiasma frequency was measured. Irradiation during the leptotene-zygotene stages of meiosis (that is, prior to the pachytene period in which crossover...
localized to the axes of unsynapsed chromosomes during the late zygonema (zygotene) stage of meiosis. BRIP1 has been shown to interact with BRCA1. GRCh38:...
autosomal chromosomes are transcriptionally active during the leptotene to zygotene stages of meiosis, whereas the X chromosome is inactive throughout meiosis...
spermatogonia, pre-leptotene spermatocytes, and in spermatocytes in the leptotene, zygotene and early pachytene stages of meiosis. In synaptonemal complexes of meiotic...
spermatogonia, preleptotene spermatocytes and spermatocytes in the leptotene, zygotene and early pachytene stages of meiosis. Loss of FANCG causes neural progenitor...
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