Inactivation or non-reactivation: what accounts better for the silence of sex chromosomes during mammalian male meiosis?

A-MYB (MYBL1) transcription factor is a master regulator of male meiosis

(2011) E. Bolcun-Filas et al.   DEVELOPMENT

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

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

Distinct Properties of the XY Pseudoautosomal Region Crucial for Male Meiosis

(2011) L. Kauppi et al.   SCIENCE

Evidence that Meiotic Sex Chromosome Inactivation Is Essential for Male Fertility

(2010) Hélène Royo et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Epigenetic Transitions in Germ Cell Development and Meiosis

(2010) Satya K. Kota et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

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

(2010) Akiko Inagaki et al.   Epigenetics

The Expression Profile of the Major Mouse SPO11 Isoforms Indicates that SPO11  Introduces Double Strand Breaks and Suggests that SPO11  Has an Additional Role in Prophase in both Spermatocytes and Oocytes

(2010) M. A. Bellani et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

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

(2010) F. Baudat et al.   SCIENCE

Meiotic behavior of aneuploid chromatin in mouse models of Down syndrome

(2009) Laura G. Reinholdt et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Sumoylation precedes accumulation of phosphorylated H2AX on sex chromosomes during their meiotic inactivation

(2009) Margarita Vigodner   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Mechanisms of transcriptional repression by histone lysine methylation

(2009) Philip Hublitz et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

CDK2 is required for proper homologous pairing, recombination and sex-body formation during male mouse meiosis

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

The consequences of asynapsis for mammalian meiosis

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

miRNA and piRNA localization in the male mammalian meiotic nucleus

(2008) E. Marcon et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Histone H3 lysine 4 trimethylation marks meiotic recombination initiation sites

(2008) Valérie Borde et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

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