Meiosis: how could it work?

THE MAJOR TRANSITIONS OF EVOLUTION

1995 • 3,220 citations

The Major Transitions in Evolution

1997 • 2,625 citations

The double-strand-break repair model for recombination

1983 • 2,468 citations

NUCLEASE HYPERSENSITIVE SITES IN CHROMATIN

1988 • 1,233 citations

DMC1: A meiosis-specific yeast homolog of E. coli recA required for recombination, synaptonemal complex formation, and cell cycle progression

1992 • 1,133 citations

A pathway for generation and processing of double-strand breaks during meiotic recombination in S. cerevisiae

1990 • 683 citations

ZIP1 is a synaptonemal complex protein required for meiotic chromosome synapsis

1993 • 606 citations

Recent Advances in Cytology

1937 • 600 citations

THE SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX IN GENETIC SEGREGATION

1984 • 585 citations

The Major Transitions of Evolution.

1995 • 550 citations

Sister chromatids are preferred over homologs as substrates for recombinational repair in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

1992 • 514 citations

Identification of double holliday junctions as intermediates in meiotic recombination

1995 • 482 citations

The Cell Cycle

1989 • 468 citations

Temporal comparison of recombination and synaptonemal complex formation during meiosis in S. cerevisiae

1991 • 449 citations

Meiosis-Induced Double-Strand Break Sites Determined by Yeast Chromatin Structure

1994 • 433 citations

Identification of joint molecules that form frequently between homologs but rarely between sister chromatids during yeast meiosis

1994 • 374 citations

International Cell Biology 1980–1981

1981 • 363 citations

Chromosome pairing via multiple interstitial interactions before and during meiosis in yeast

1994 • 358 citations

Chromosome condensation and sister chromatid pairing in budding yeast.

1994 • 328 citations

Crossover interference is abolished in the absence of a synaptonemal complex protein

1994 • 285 citations

The mei-41 gene of D. melanogaster is a structural and functional homolog of the human ataxia telangiectasia gene

1995 • 278 citations

Interaction of Mre11 and Rad50: two proteins required for DNA repair and meiosis-specific double-strand break formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

1995 • 269 citations

Mismatch repair proteins MutS and MutL inhibit RecA-catalyzed strand transfer between diverged DNAs.

1994 • 251 citations

The metaphase scaffold is helically folded: Sister chromatids have predominantly opposite helical handedness

1988 • 232 citations

Changes in chromatin structure at recombination initiation sites during yeast meiosis.

1994 • 218 citations

SISTER-CHROMATID COHESION IN MITOSIS AND MEIOSIS

1994 • 203 citations

Roles for two RecA homologs in promoting meiotic chromosome synapsis.

1995 • 202 citations

The control of chiasma distribution.

1984 • 201 citations

Genetic Recombination

1987 • 200 citations

Chiasma interference as a function of genetic distance.

1993 • 198 citations

The rec8 gene of Schizosaccharomyces pombe is involved in linear element formation, chromosome pairing and sister-chromatid cohesion during meiosis.

1995 • 183 citations

Homologous pairing is reduced but not abolished in asynaptic mutants of yeast.

1994 • 178 citations

Development of the synaptonemal complex and the ?recombination nodules? during meiotic prophase in the seven bivalents of the fungus Sordaria macrospora Auersw

1977 • 177 citations

Recombination nodules and synaptonemal complex in recombination-defective females of Drosophila melanogaster

1979 • 167 citations

Meiotic chromosome behavior in spread preparations of yeast.

1988 • 162 citations

Potential Advantages of Unstable Interactions for Pairing of Chromosomes in Meiotic, Somatic, and Premeiotic Cells

1993 • 156 citations

Dynamics of chromosome organization and pairing during meiotic prophase in fission yeast.

1994 • 155 citations

Meiotic chromosome pairing in maize is associated with a novel chromatin organization

1994 • 153 citations

The time and duration of meiosis

1977 • 149 citations

Sequence non-specific double-strand breaks and interhomolog interactions prior to double-strand break formation at a meiotic recombination hot spot in yeast.

1995 • 148 citations

Multiple sites for double-strand breaks in whole meiotic chromosomes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

1992 • 135 citations

Timing of molecular events in meiosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: stable heteroduplex DNA is formed late in meiotic prophase.

1993 • 134 citations

Sex and the single cell: meiosis in yeast.

1995 • 130 citations

RAD50 protein ofS.cerevisiaeexhibits ATP-dependent DNA binding

1993 • 124 citations

A polymerization model of chiasma interference and corresponding computer simulation.

1990 • 118 citations

Chromatin organization at meiosis

1988 • 117 citations

Chromsome synapsis and genetic recombination: their roles in meiotic chromsome segregation

1990 • 115 citations

Kinetochore structure and its role in chromosome orientation during the first meiotic division in male D. melanogaster

1981 • 105 citations

THE TIME AND PLACE OF MEIOTIC CROSSING-OVER

1970 • 104 citations

A postprophase topoisomerase II-dependent chromatid core separation step in the formation of metaphase chromosomes.

1995 • 104 citations

Heteroduplex DNA formation and homolog pairing in yeast meiotic mutants.

1995 • 102 citations

Correlation between pairing initiation sites, recombination nodules and meiotic recombination in Sordaria macrospora.

1992 • 101 citations

Coming undone: How to untangle a chromosome

1994 • 95 citations

Crossover and noncrossover recombination during meiosis: timing and pathway relationships.

1995 • 92 citations

Physical detection of heteroduplexes during meiotic recombination in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

1993 • 92 citations

Meiotic Chromosome Metabolism: One View

1991 • 90 citations

Immunocytology of chiasmata and chromosomal disjunction at mouse meiosis

1995 • 84 citations

The central region of the synaptonemal complex revealed in three dimensions

1995 • 80 citations

Initiation of recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae haploid meiosis.

1994 • 80 citations

A short chromosomal region with major roles in yeast chromosome III meiotic disjunction, recombination and double strand breaks.

1993 • 79 citations

Homologous recombination in fission yeast: Absence of crossover interference and synaptonemal complex

1994 • 79 citations

Cine-micrographic analysis of c-mitosis in endosperm

1957 • 78 citations

Meiosis in Drosophila: seeing is believing.

1995 • 77 citations

Chromosome distribution: experiments on cell hybrids and in vitro

1977 • 75 citations

Chiasma function

1994 • 75 citations

Meiosis-specific arrest revealed in DNA topoisomerase II mutants.

1993 • 73 citations

Communication between homologous chromosomes: genetic alterations at a nuclease‐hypersensitive site can alter mitotic chromatin structure at that site both in cis and in trans

1996 • 70 citations

What determines whether chromosomes segregate reductionally or equationally in meiosis?

1993 • 61 citations

Induction of Metaphase Arrest in Drosophila Oocytes by Chiasma-Based Kinetochore Tension

1995 • 61 citations

The synaptonemal complex and the distribution of meiotic recombination events

1995 • 56 citations

Synapsis and chiasma formation in four meiotic mutants of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum)

1994 • 49 citations

Silver staining two types of meiotic nodules

1992 • 47 citations

Chromosome organization during male meiosis in Bombyx mori

1981 • 47 citations

The effect of DNA sequence polymorphisms on intragenic recombination in the rosy locus of Drosophila melanogaster.

1991 • 45 citations

Initiation of meiotic recombination is independent of interhomologue interactions.

1994 • 44 citations

SPO13 negatively regulates the progression of mitotic and meiotic nuclear division in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

1994 • 40 citations

2 Meiotic Sister Chromatid Recombination

1995 • 38 citations

Is the Synaptonemal Complex a Disjunction Machine?

1995 • 38 citations

Involvement of chromatid cohesiveness at the centromere and chromosome arms in meiotic chromosome segregation: A cytological approach

1992 • 33 citations

Chiasma Interference and the Distribution of Exchanges in Drosophila melanogaster

1993 • 31 citations

Physical Detection of Heteroduplexes during Meiotic Recombination in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

1993 • 28 citations

Meiosis-Specific Arrest Revealed in DNA Topoisomerase II Mutants

1993 • 24 citations

An implanted recombination hot spot stimulates recombination and enhances sister chromatid cohesion of heterologous YACs during yeast meiosis.

1994 • 22 citations

Presence of a centromeric filament during meiosis

1991 • 15 citations

Synaptic behaviour and recombination nodules in the human XY pair

1988 • 13 citations

Synaptosomal complexes and the organization of chromatin during meiotic prophase

1992 • 10 citations

Meiosis VII: ?Detorsive bending? as a basis for geometric shapes of late prophase bivalents

1970 • 6 citations