Mammalian meiotic silencing exhibits sexually dimorphic features

Histone H2AFX Links Meiotic Chromosome Asynapsis to Prophase I Oocyte Loss in Mammals

(2015) Jeffrey M. Cloutier et al.   PLoS Genetics

Oocyte heterogeneity with respect to the meiotic silencing of unsynapsed X chromosomes in the XY female mouse

(2013) Teruko Taketo et al.   CHROMOSOMA

ATR acts stage specifically to regulate multiple aspects of mammalian meiotic silencing

(2013) H. Royo et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Senataxin Plays an Essential Role with DNA Damage Response Proteins in Meiotic Recombination and Gene Silencing

(2013) Olivier J. Becherel et al.   PLoS Genetics

AGO4 Regulates Entry into Meiosis and Influences Silencing of Sex Chromosomes in the Male Mouse Germline

(2012) Andrew J. Modzelewski et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Meiotic DNA double-strand breaks and chromosome asynapsis in mice are monitored by distinct HORMAD2-independent and -dependent mechanisms

(2012) L. Wojtasz et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

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

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

Oocyte-Specific Differences in Cell-Cycle Control Create an Innate Susceptibility to Meiotic Errors

(2011) So Iha Nagaoka et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Y-Encoded Gene Zfy2 Acts to Remove Cells with Unpaired Chromosomes at the First Meiotic Metaphase in Male Mice

(2011) Nadège Vernet et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

MDC1 directs chromosome-wide silencing of the sex chromosomes in male germ cells

(2011) Y. Ichijima et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Meiotic homologue alignment and its quality surveillance are controlled by mouse HORMAD1

(2011) Katrin Daniel et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

The role of unpaired sex chromosomes in spermatogenic failure*

(2010) P. S. Burgoyne et al.   ANDROLOGIA

Evidence that Meiotic Sex Chromosome Inactivation Is Essential for Male Fertility

(2010) Hélène Royo et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

ATR, BRCA1 and γH2AX localize to unsynapsed chromosomes at the pachytene stage in human oocytes

(2010) R Garcia-Cruz et al.   REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE ONLINE

Hormad1 Mutation Disrupts Synaptonemal Complex Formation, Recombination, and Chromosome Segregation in Mammalian Meiosis

(2010) Yong-Hyun Shin et al.   PLoS Genetics

A novel mammalian HORMA domain-containing protein, HORMAD1, preferentially associates with unsynapsed meiotic chromosomes

(2009) Tomoyuki Fukuda et al.   EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH

BRCA1-mediated chromatin silencing is limited to oocytes with a small number of asynapsed chromosomes

(2009) A. Kouznetsova et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

The consequences of asynapsis for mammalian meiosis

(2009) Paul S. Burgoyne et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Mouse HORMAD1 and HORMAD2, Two Conserved Meiotic Chromosomal Proteins, Are Depleted from Synapsed Chromosome Axes with the Help of TRIP13 AAA-ATPase

(2009) Lukasz Wojtasz et al.   PLoS Genetics

A High Incidence of Meiotic Silencing of Unsynapsed Chromatin Is Not Associated with Substantial Pachytene Loss in Heterozygous Male Mice Carrying Multiple Simple Robertsonian Translocations

(2009) Marcia Manterola et al.   PLoS Genetics

Extensive meiotic asynapsis in mice antagonises meiotic silencing of unsynapsed chromatin and consequently disrupts meiotic sex chromosome inactivation

(2008) Shantha K. Mahadevaiah et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY