Initiation of Meiotic Recombination in Mammals
Meiotic recombination is initiated by the induction of programmed DNA double strand breaks (DSBs). DSB repair promotes homologous interactions and pairing and leads to the formation of crossovers (COs), which are required for the proper reductional segregation at the first meiotic division. In mamma...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
2010
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3966222/ |