Spreading synaptonemal complexes from Zea mays. I. No synaptic adjustment of inversion loops during pachytene.

abstract：:The genus Phaseolus L. has been subject of extensive cytogenetic studies due to its global economic importance. It is considered karyotypically stable, with most of its ca. 75 species having 2n = 22 chromosomes, and only three species (Phaseolus leptostachyus, Phaseolus macvaughii, and Phaseolus micranthus), which for...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Fonsêca A,Ferraz ME,Pedrosa-Harand A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described for excising by a glass knife single bands of isolated polytene chromosomes of the salivary glands of Chironomus tentans larvae. DNA strands were isolated from cut-out bands and their contour lengths were determined on electron micrographs. The mean contour length of DNA strands isolated from the...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Frey M,Koller T,Lezzi M

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While many studies have provided significant insight into homolog pairing during meiosis, information on non-homologous pairing is much less abundant. In the present study, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was used to investigate non-homologous pairing in haploid rice during meiosis. At pachytene, non-homolog...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Gong Z,Liu X,Tang D,Yu H,Yi C,Cheng Z,Gu M

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary conservation of Y chromosomal DNA sequences of Drosophila hydei in different species of the genus Drosophila was studied by in situ hybridization and on genomic DNA blots of restriction enzyme digested DNA. We demonstrated that Y specific DNA sequences, which form major parts of lampbrush loops relate...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Vogt P,Hennig W,ten Hacken D,Verbost P

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macronuclear DNA was isolated from purified macronuclei of Paramecium aurelia and the size distribution was determined with regard to growth phase and method of extraction. DNA molecules as long as 105 microns and as short as 0.2 microns were observed. It was concluded that the method of extraction affected the observ...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Cummings DJ

更新日期：1975-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Diverse studies indicate that certain nonhistone proteins may be responsible for maintaining the integrity of the eukaryotic chromosomes. In view of their dispersal during nuclear division and their acknowledged role in gene expression, none of the nuclear matrix proteins can be regarded as integral proteins of the ch...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： De DN

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At meiotic prophase the chromatin becomes arranged in loops on newly formed chromosome cores. The cores of homologous chromosomes become aligned in parallel and thus form the synaptonemal complex (SC), a structure found in the meiocytes of nearly all recombinationally competent, sexually reproducing organisms. We repo...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Moens PB,Earnshaw WC

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very few of the middle repetitive DNA sequences found in Drosophila melanogaster are present in all of the species of the D. melanogaster subgroup. One member of the subgroup, D. erecta, lacks most of the families of repetitive elements from D. melanogaster (including copia and 412) but possesses many other families n...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Dowsett AP

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 204 mutations located in the 8-12 band Df(2L)130 region, 37B9-C1,2;37D1-2, 199 have been assigned to twelve lethal genes and one visible gene (hook). The 13 genes are not evenly distributed. Twelve, (possibly all thirteen) are in the seven band region 37B10-C4 giving a gene-to-band ratio of almost two. Only one gen...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Wright TR,Beermann W,Marsh JL,Bishop CP,Steward R,Black BC,Tomsett AD,Wright EY

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feulgen cytophotometric measurements of neuroblasts in the first and third instar larvae of Drosophila melanogaster reveal the same DNA content for metaphases with chromosomes of different size. The total absorbance of all measured metaphases gives the four-fold value of that of the spermatids. Accordingly there seem ...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： van de Flierdt K

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent progress in elucidating the function of synaptonemal complex (SC) proteins and of cohesins in meiocytes made possible, in particular, through the analysis of mice deficient in SC or cohesin proteins has significantly enriched our understanding of how meiotic chromosome architecture is determined. Cohesins and t...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Revenkova E,Jessberger R

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterochromatin in eukaryotic interphase cells frequently localizes to the nucleolar periphery (nucleolus-associated domains (NADs)) and the nuclear lamina (lamina-associated domains (LADs)). Gene expression in somatic cell NADs is generally low, but NADs have not been characterized in mammalian stem cells. Here, we g...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Bizhanova A,Yan A,Yu J,Zhu LJ,Kaufman PD

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lack of crossing-over in meiosis can trigger an apoptotic response at metaphase I by the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC). In contrast to females, segregation of sex chromosomes in males poses a particular challenge as recombination and chiasma formation is restricted to the pseudoautosomal region, the small region o...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Faisal I,Kauppi L

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human lymphocytes were grown for one replication cycle in BrdU, stained with 33258 Hoechst, exposed to UV light and subsequently treated with 2 x SSC and stained with Giemsa. This technique differentially stains the constitutive heterochromatin of chromosomes 1, 9, 15, 16, and the Y. In the heterochromatin of chromoso...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Angell RR,Jacobs PA

更新日期：1975-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:PICH (Plk1-interacting checkpoint helicase) was recently identified as an essential component of the spindle assembly checkpoint and shown to localize to kinetochores, inner centromeres, and thin threads connecting separating chromosomes even during anaphase. In this paper, we have used immuno-fiber fluorescence in si...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Wang LH,Schwarzbraun T,Speicher MR,Nigg EA

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The large heterochromatic chromosome of Drosophila nasutoides reveals distinctive C- and Q-bands. The regions which are negative in C-banding appear positive in Q-banding. The isochromosomic nature of this chromosome and the locality of the satellite DNAs in this chromosome are discussed with respect to these banding ...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Lee CS,Collins L

更新日期：1977-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent in situ hybridization with chromosome specific probes was used in conjunction with laser scanning confocal microscopy to assess the three-dimensional distribution of chromosomes in human T-lymphocyte nuclei. Cells in the G1-phase of the cell cycle exhibit a distinctly non-random chromosome organization:cen...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Ferguson M,Ward DC

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) and Aurora A play key roles in centrosome maturation, spindle assembly, and chromosome segregation during cell division. Here we show that the functions of these kinases during early mitosis are coordinated through Bora, a partner of Aurora A first identified in Drosophila. Depletion of human...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Chan EH,Santamaria A,Silljé HH,Nigg EA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In wild-type Drosophila hydei (genotype X/Y) four different primary spermatocyte nuclear glycoproteins, classified as non-Y encoded because of their occurrence in X/O genotypes, were demonstrated to possess a few epitopes that depended on formation of the Y chromosomal giant lampbrush loops threads (th; Mr 55,000 prot...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Tischendorf G,Liebrich W,Trapitz P,Wood G,Schwochau M

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The appearance of RNP droplets associated with specific regions of polytene chromosomes from Chironomus larvae has been studied, systematically by light microscopy using glutarladehyde fixation and lactic acid squashing of the salivary gland. During the fourth larval instar the highest frequency of nuclei which contai...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Stockert JC,Díez JL

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The putative nucleolus in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is visible in electron micrographs as a darkly stained, crescent-shaped structure associated with the nuclear envelope. The haploid yeast genome contains 100-200 tandem copies of a 9.1 kb ribosomal DNA (rDNA) repeat predicted to reside in this structure. We combined i...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Dvorkin N,Clark MW,Hamkalo BA

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the stability of the genomic distribution of six retrotransposon families in long-term and short-term cultures of Drosophila cells. In a subclone derived from Kc cells, no significant rearrangements were detected over an 8 year period. On the contrary, extensive reshuffling and amplification of transposon f...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Junakovic N,Di Franco C,Best-Belpomme M,Echalier G

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male hybrids of the cross D. azteca X D. athabasca are larger (hybrid giant males) than their parents, whereas hybrid females are of the same size as the parental species. Microspectrophotometric measurements have shown that the larval polytene salivary gland chromosomes of hybrid giant males undergo one more endorepl...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Meer B

更新日期：1976-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought for cloned sequences of middle repetitive (MR) complexity that mark obligatory heterochromatic regions. Total genome probes were employed in a differential screening procedure to recover X-specific, Y-specific and autosomal specific heterochromatic sequences. X-and Y-linked sequences were recovered in the sa...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Lifschytz E,Hareven D

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method has been described for the visualization of chromosomes cores with light microscopy in conventional chromosome preparations. The technique is relatively simple, highly reproducible and can be used effectively on fresh and aged slides. The following observations have been made: (1) a core existed in mit...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Satya-Prakash KL,Hsu TC,Pathak S

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiosis is a conserved cell division process that is used by sexually reproducing organisms to generate haploid gametes. Males and females produce different end products of meiosis: eggs (females) and sperm (males). In addition, these unique end products demonstrate sex-specific differences that occur throughout meios...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Cahoon CK,Libuda DE

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A higher order organization of the centromeres in the form of clustering of these DNA loci has been observed in many organisms. While centromere clustering is biologically significant to achieve faithful chromosome segregation, the underlying molecular mechanism is yet to be fully understood. In budding yeast, a kinet...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Mittal P,Chavan A,Trakroo D,Shah S,Ghosh SK

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane-free folded chromosomes were purified from log-phase cultures of Escherichia coli and prepared for electron microscopy by aqueous (Kleinschmidt and Zahn) spreading. The appearance of the chromosomes depended on the salt concentrations in spreading. At certain salt concentration, the chromosomes resembled rose...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Kavenoff R,Bowen BC

更新日期：1976-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide evidence that centromere-specific 155 bp DNA repeats terminate one pair of telomeres at the telocentric, left end of the short fourth chromosome in Chironomus pallidivittatus. Earlier evidence indicated that all other telomeres are terminated by 340 bp telomere-specific repeats. DNA that borders the 155 bp ...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Rosén M,Castillejo-López C,Edström JE

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dioecious species accounted for 6% of all plant species, including a number of crops and economically important species, such as poplar. However, sex determination and sex chromosome evolution have been studied only in few dioecious species. In poplar, the sex-determining locus was mapped to chromosome 19. Interesting...

journal_title：Chromosoma

authors： Xin H,Zhang T,Han Y,Wu Y,Shi J,Xi M,Jiang J

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00