In the choreography of meiosis—the process responsible for sex cell division in all eukaryotic life—the pairing of homologous chromosomes (homologs) is essential. Errors in this process can lead to an ...

Sometimes the best way to understand a biological process is to disrupt the normal process and analyze the result. That’s why Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI) researchers used a strain of mutant mice ...

Meiosis produces sperm and eggs with exactly half the chromosome number of the individual producing the gametes. To ensure that each gamete has one copy of each chromosome pair, the diploid cell ...

Meiosis is a specialized type of cell division in which two rounds of chromosome segregation follow a single round of DNA replication. In diploid organisms, meiosis generates gametes with a haploid ...