Error-Prone ZW Pairing and No Evidence for Meiotic Sex Chromosome Inactivation in the Chicken Germ Line

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

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

Evidence that Meiotic Sex Chromosome Inactivation Is Essential for Male Fertility

(2010) Hélène Royo et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sex chromosome inactivation in the male

(2010) Wei Yan et al.   Epigenetics

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

(2010) Akiko Inagaki et al.   Epigenetics

Convergent evolution of chicken Z and human X chromosomes by expansion and gene acquisition

(2010) Daniel W. Bellott et al.   NATURE

ATM Modulates the Loading of Recombination Proteins onto a Chromosomal Translocation Breakpoint Hotspot

(2010) Jiying Sun et al.   PLoS One

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

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

Key Features of the X Inactivation Process Are Conserved between Marsupials and Eutherians

(2009) Shantha K. Mahadevaiah et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The consequences of asynapsis for mammalian meiosis

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

The mouse X chromosome is enriched for multicopy testis genes showing postmeiotic expression

(2008) Jacob L Mueller et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Human female meiosis: what makes a good egg go bad?

(2008) Patricia A. Hunt et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS