The basic events of meiosis are conserved across a huge evolutionary divide. From yeast to mammals, this process involves the alignment (pairing) and synapsis (tight association in a protein scaffold) ...

Pairing, synapsis, and recombination are prerequisites for accurate chromosome segregation in meiosis. The phs1 gene in maize is required for pairing to occur between homologous chromosomes. In the ...

Three biochemical steps of the non-homologous DNA end-joining (NHEJ) process. This figure outlines the key stages of the NHEJ repair mechanism following DNA double-strand breaks. The process can be ...