Genetically enhanced asynapsis of autosomal chromatin promotes transcriptional dysregulation and meiotic failure

Lack of global meiotic sex chromosome inactivation, and paucity of tissue-specific gene expression on the Drosophila X chromosome

(2011) Lyudmila M Mikhaylova et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

An Asymmetric Chromosome Pair Undergoes Synaptic Adjustment and Crossover Redistribution During Caenorhabditis elegans Meiosis: Implications for Sex Chromosome Evolution

(2011) J. V. Henzel et al.   GENETICS

Sex Chromosome-Specific Regulation in the Drosophila Male Germline But Little Evidence for Chromosomal Dosage Compensation or Meiotic Inactivation

(2011) Colin D. Meiklejohn et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

DNA double-strand break repair in Caenorhabditis elegans

(2010) Bennie B. L. G. Lemmens et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Evidence that Meiotic Sex Chromosome Inactivation Is Essential for Male Fertility

(2010) Hélène Royo et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

DNA double strand break repair, chromosome synapsis and transcriptional silencing in meiosis

(2010) Akiko Inagaki et al.   Epigenetics

The consequences of asynapsis for mammalian meiosis

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

XY and ZW: Is Meiotic Sex Chromosome Inactivation the Rule in Evolution?

(2009) Satoshi H. Namekawa et al.   PLoS Genetics

Female Meiotic Sex Chromosome Inactivation in Chicken

(2009) Sam Schoenmakers et al.   PLoS Genetics

Stage-Specific Expression Profiling of Drosophila Spermatogenesis Suggests that Meiotic Sex Chromosome Inactivation Drives Genomic Relocation of Testis-Expressed Genes

(2009) Maria D. Vibranovski 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

Increased frequency of asynapsis and associated meiotic silencing of heterologous chromatin in the presence of irradiation-induced extra DNA double strand breaks

(2008) Sam Schoenmakers et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

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

A Mouse Speciation Gene Encodes a Meiotic Histone H3 Methyltransferase

(2008) O. Mihola et al.   SCIENCE