Rapid Evolution of the Fine-scale Recombination Landscape in Wild House Mouse (Mus musculus) Populations

LK Wooldridge, BL Dumont - Molecular biology and evolution, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Meiotic recombination is an important evolutionary force and an essential meiotic process. In
many species, recombination events concentrate into hotspots defined by the site-specific …

Synaptonemal & CO analyzer: A tool for synaptonemal complex and crossover analysis in immunofluorescence images

J Soriano, A Belmonte-Tebar… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
During the formation of ova and sperm, homologous chromosomes get physically attached
through the synaptonemal complex and exchange DNA at crossover sites by a process …

Diversification and recurrent adaptation of the synaptonemal complex in Drosophila

R Zakerzade, CH Chang, K Chatla, A Krishnapura… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The synaptonemal complex (SC) is a protein-rich structure essential for meiotic
recombination and faithful chromosome segregation. Acting like a zipper to paired …