Sycp2 is essential for synaptonemal complex assembly, early meiotic recombination and homologous pairing in zebrafish spermatocytes

• Kazumasa Takemoto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kazumasa Takemoto, Yukiko Imai

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Laboratory of Chromosome Biology, Institute of Molecular Embryology and Genetics, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, School of Life Science, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Mishima, Japan

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• Yukiko Imai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kazumasa Takemoto, Yukiko Imai

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gene Function and Phenomics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4716-2563

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• Kenji Saito,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Gene Function and Phenomics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

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• Toshihiro Kawasaki,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Genetics, School of Life Science, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Mishima, Japan, Department of Gene Function and Phenomics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

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• Peter M. Carlton,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Radiation Biology Center and Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5320-6024

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• Kei-ichiro Ishiguro,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chromosome Biology, Institute of Molecular Embryology and Genetics, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7515-1511

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• Noriyoshi Sakai

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nosakai@nig.ac.jp

  Affiliations Department of Genetics, School of Life Science, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Mishima, Japan, Department of Gene Function and Phenomics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8403-8281

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