Evolutionary mysteries in meiosis

Correlations between Synaptic Initiation and Meiotic Recombination: A Study of Humans and Mice

(2016) Jennifer R. Gruhn et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Interactions between Genetic and Ecological Effects on the Evolution of Life Cycles

(2016) Marie Rescan et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The challenge of evolving stable polyploidy: could an increase in “crossover interference distance” play a central role?

(2016) Kirsten Bomblies et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Meiosis in autopolyploid and allopolyploid Arabidopsis

(2016) Andrew Lloyd et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Conserved Genetic Architecture Underlying Individual Recombination Rate Variation in a Wild Population of Soay Sheep ( Ovis aries )

(2016) Susan E. Johnston et al.   GENETICS

The Ecology and Evolutionary Dynamics of Meiotic Drive

(2016) Anna K. Lindholm et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Genetic Architecture of Natural Variation in Recombination Rate in Drosophila melanogaster

(2016) Chad M. Hunter et al.   PLoS Genetics

Conserved Genetic Architecture Underlying Individual Recombination Rate Variation in a Wild Population of Soay Sheep ( Ovis aries )

(2016) Susan E. Johnston et al.   GENETICS

The Molecular Biology of Meiosis in Plants

(2015) Raphaël Mercier et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Experimental evolution of recombination and crossover interference in Drosophila caused by directional selection for stress-related traits

(2015) Dau Dayal Aggarwal et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Meiotic crossover patterns: Obligatory crossover, interference and homeostasis in a single process

(2015) Shunxin Wang et al.   CELL CYCLE

Centromere-associated meiotic drive and female fitness variation inMimulus

(2015) Lila Fishman et al.   EVOLUTION

DNA methylation restrains transposons from adopting a chromatin signature permissive for meiotic recombination

(2015) Natasha Zamudio et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Uncovering Cryptic Asexuality in Daphnia magna by RAD Sequencing

(2015) N. Svendsen et al.   GENETICS

Recombination, chromosome number and eusociality in the Hymenoptera

(2015) L. Ross et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Automixis in Artemia: solving a century-old controversy

(2015) O. Nougué et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Time Scale of Recombination Rate Evolution in Great Apes

(2015) Laurie S. Stevison et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genome-wide maps of recombination and chromosome segregation in human oocytes and embryos show selection for maternal recombination rates

(2015) Christian S Ottolini et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Meiotic recombination hotspots - a comparative view

(2015) Kyuha Choi et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Multiple mechanisms limit meiotic crossovers: TOP3α and two BLM homologs antagonize crossovers in parallel to FANCM

(2015) Mathilde Séguéla-Arnaud et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sex is a ubiquitous, ancient, and inherent attribute of eukaryotic life

(2015) Dave Speijer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Stable recombination hotspots in birds

(2015) S. Singhal et al.   SCIENCE

Recombination, Pairing, and Synapsis of Homologs during Meiosis

(2015) Denise Zickler et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Meiotic Recombination: The Essence of Heredity

(2015) Neil Hunter   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Cattle Sex-Specific Recombination and Genetic Control from a Large Pedigree Analysis

(2015) Li Ma et al.   PLoS Genetics

Enhancer Runaway and the Evolution of Diploid Gene Expression

(2015) Frédéric Fyon et al.   PLoS Genetics

Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Myths and Mechanisms

(2014) Edith Heard et al.   CELL

Ancient Endo-siRNA Pathways Reveal New Tricks

(2014) Julie M. Claycomb   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Centromere Strength Provides the Cell Biological Basis for Meiotic Drive and Karyotype Evolution in Mice

(2014) Lukáš Chmátal et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Variation in Crossover Frequencies Perturb Crossover Assurance Without Affecting Meiotic Chromosome Segregation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

(2014) Gurukripa N. Krishnaprasad et al.   GENETICS

Genetic causes of transitions from sexual reproduction to asexuality in plants and animals

(2014) M. Neiman et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A high-density linkage map enables a second-generation collared flycatcher genome assembly and reveals the patterns of avian recombination rate variation and chromosomal evolution

(2014) Takeshi Kawakami et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Evolutionary cell biology: Two origins, one objective: Fig. 1.

(2014) Michael Lynch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chiasmatic and achiasmatic inverted meiosis of plants with holocentric chromosomes

(2014) Gabriela Cabral et al.   Nature Communications

Alternative meiotic chromatid segregation in the holocentric plant Luzula elegans

(2014) Stefan Heckmann et al.   Nature Communications

The Red Queen Model of Recombination Hotspots Evolution in the Light of Archaic and Modern Human Genomes

(2014) Yann Lesecque et al.   PLoS Genetics

Nothing in Genetics Makes Sense Except in Light of Genomic Conflict

(2013) William R. Rice   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Initiation of Meiotic Recombination: How and Where? Conservation and Specificities Among Eukaryotes

(2013) Bernard de Massy   Annual Review of Genetics

Couples, pairs, and clusters: mechanisms and implications of centromere associations in meiosis

(2013) David Obeso et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Meiotic Adaptation to Genome Duplication in Arabidopsis arenosa

(2013) Levi Yant et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Meiosis and Its Deviations in Polyploid Plants

(2013) L. Grandont et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

Meiosis and Its Deviations in Polyploid Animals

(2013) P. Stenberg et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

Crossover Heterogeneity in the Absence of Hotspots in Caenorhabditis elegans

(2013) Taniya Kaur et al.   GENETICS

Coadaptation and conflict, misconception and muddle, in the evolution of genomic imprinting

(2013) D Haig   HEREDITY

Common and low-frequency variants associated with genome-wide recombination rate

(2013) Augustine Kong et al.   NATURE GENETICS

RNF212 is a dosage-sensitive regulator of crossing-over during mammalian meiosis

(2013) April Reynolds et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Arabidopsis meiotic crossover hot spots overlap with H2A.Z nucleosomes at gene promoters

(2013) Kyuha Choi et al.   NATURE GENETICS

RNA interference in the nucleus: roles for small RNAs in transcription, epigenetics and beyond

(2013) Stephane E. Castel et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Meiotic recombination in mammals: localization and regulation

(2013) Frédéric Baudat et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Genetic Recombination Is Targeted towards Gene Promoter Regions in Dogs

(2013) Adam Auton et al.   PLoS Genetics

Control of the meiotic cell division program in plants

(2013) Erik Wijnker et al.   Plant Reproduction

The oxidative damage initiation hypothesis for meiosis

(2013) Elvira Hörandl et al.   Plant Reproduction

Holocentric chromosomes: convergent evolution, meiotic adaptations, and genomic analysis

(2012) Daniël P. Melters et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

The Selfish Segregation Distorter Gene Complex of Drosophila melanogaster

(2012) A. M. Larracuente et al.   GENETICS

Genetic recombination is directed away from functional genomic elements in mice

(2012) Kevin Brick et al.   NATURE

Human aneuploidy: mechanisms and new insights into an age-old problem

(2012) So I. Nagaoka et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The Many Landscapes of Recombination in Drosophila melanogaster

(2012) Josep M. Comeron et al.   PLoS Genetics

Genetic Adaptation Associated with Genome-Doubling in Autotetraploid Arabidopsis arenosa

(2012) Jesse D. Hollister et al.   PLoS Genetics

Homologous recombination in the archaea: the means justify the ends: Figure 1

(2011) Malcolm F. White   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

A Hierarchical Combination of Factors Shapes the Genome-wide Topography of Yeast Meiotic Recombination Initiation

(2011) Jing Pan et al.   CELL

Using Parthenogenetic Lineages to Identify Advantages of Sex

(2011) Maurine Neiman et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Scrambling Eggs: Meiotic Drive and the Evolution of Female Recombination Rates

(2011) Yaniv Brandvain et al.   GENETICS

Synthetic Clonal Reproduction Through Seeds

(2011) M. P. A. Marimuthu et al.   SCIENCE

Chiasmata Promote Monopolar Attachment of Sister Chromatids and Their Co-Segregation toward the Proper Pole during Meiosis I

(2011) Yukinobu Hirose et al.   PLoS Genetics

Genome-Wide Crossover Distribution in Arabidopsis thaliana Meiosis Reveals Sex-Specific Patterns along Chromosomes

(2011) Laurène Giraut et al.   PLoS Genetics

Games in Tetrads: Segregation, Recombination, and Meiotic Drive

(2010) David Haig   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Abortive meiosis in the oogenesis of parthenogenetic Daphnia pulex

(2010) Chizue Hiruta et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Genetic Interference: Dont Stand So Close to Me

(2010) Luke Berchowitz et al.   CURRENT GENOMICS

CONTAGIOUS PARTHENOGENESIS, AUTOMIXIS, AND A SEX DETERMINATION MELTDOWN

(2010) Jan Engelstädter et al.   EVOLUTION

Switching the mechanism of mating type switching: a domesticated transposase supplants a domesticated homing endonuclease

(2010) L. N. Rusche et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Polyploidy-Associated Genomic Instability inArabidopsis thaliana

(2010) Yixing Wang et al.   GENESIS

Meiotic Chromosome Segregation in Triploid Strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

(2010) J. S. Charles et al.   GENETICS

Extensive recombination rate variation in the house mouse species complex inferred from genetic linkage maps

(2010) B. L. Dumont et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The Red Queen theory of recombination hotspots

(2010) F. ÚBEDA et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Sister chromosome pairing maintains heterozygosity in parthenogenetic lizards

(2010) Aracely A. Lutes et al.   NATURE

Mammalian recombination hot spots: properties, control and evolution

(2010) Kenneth Paigen et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Genome destabilization by homologous recombination in the germ line

(2010) Mariko Sasaki et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Positive feedback in the transition from sexual reproduction to parthenogenesis

(2010) T. Schwander et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

PRDM9 Is a Major Determinant of Meiotic Recombination Hotspots in Humans and Mice

(2010) F. Baudat et al.   SCIENCE

The Evolutionary Enigma of Sex

(2009) Sarah P. Otto   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Origin and maintenance of sex: the evolutionary joys of self sex

(2009) ROOT GORELICK et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Major Evolutionary Transitions in Centromere Complexity

(2009) Harmit S. Malik et al.   CELL

Oogenesis: Making the Mos of Meiosis

(2009) Cassandra Extavour   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Evolution of Meiosis From Mitosis

(2009) A. S. Wilkins et al.   GENETICS

The evolution of heterochiasmy: the role of sexual selection and sperm competition in determining sex-specific recombination rates in eutherian mammals

(2009) JUDITH E. MANK   Genetics Research

Two-parameter characterization of chromosome-scale recombination rate

(2009) W. Li et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Applied Conservation Genetics and the Need for Quality Control and Reporting of Genetic Data Used in Fisheries and Wildlife Management

(2009) P. A. Morin et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Making a functional diploid: from polysomic to disomic inheritance

(2009) S. C. Le Comber et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Homoeologous recombination in allopolyploids: the polyploid ratchet

(2009) Robert T. Gaeta et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Genetic regulation of meiosis in polyploid species: new insights into an old question

(2009) Marta Cifuentes et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Turning Meiosis into Mitosis

(2009) Isabelle d'Erfurth et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Broad-Scale Recombination Patterns Underlying Proper Disjunction in Humans

(2009) Adi Fledel-Alon et al.   PLoS Genetics

Constraints on the evolution of asexual reproduction

(2008) Jan Engelstädter   BIOESSAYS

A New Model for Asymmetric Spindle Positioning in Mouse Oocytes

(2008) Melina Schuh et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mouse Maelstrom, a Component of Nuage, Is Essential for Spermatogenesis and Transposon Repression in Meiosis

(2008) Sarah F.C. Soper et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

MULTIPLE DIRECT TRANSITIONS FROM SEXUAL REPRODUCTION TO APOMICTIC PARTHENOGENESIS INTIMEMASTICK INSECTS

(2008) Tanja Schwander et al.   EVOLUTION

A high-density SNP-based linkage map of the chicken genome reveals sequence features correlated with recombination rate

(2008) M. A.M. Groenen et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The Dynamic Nature of Eukaryotic Genomes

(2008) L. W. Parfrey et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Gamete formation without meiosis in Arabidopsis

(2008) Maruthachalam Ravi et al.   NATURE

Centromere-Associated Female Meiotic Drive Entails Male Fitness Costs in Monkeyflowers

(2008) L. Fishman et al.   SCIENCE