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N Cuñado1, S Callejas, M J García, A Fernández, J L Santos.
Abstract
Allotetraploid Aegilops species sharing the U genome, Ae. columnaris (UUMM), Ae. ovata (UUMM), Ae. triaristata (UUMM), Ae. triuncialis (UUCC) and Ae. variabilis (UUSS), regularly form bivalents at metaphase I of meiosis. The pattern of zygotene and pachytene pairing was analyzed by whole-mount surface-spreading of synaptonemal complexes under the electron microscope. The data indicated that at the zygotene stage the chromosomes were almost exclusively associated as bivalents; only a few multivalents (7%) were observed. These observations are discussed in relation to mechanisms of diploidization of polyploid meiosis.Entities:
Year: 1996 PMID: 24162495 DOI: 10.1007/BF00230139
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Theor Appl Genet ISSN: 0040-5752 Impact factor: 5.699