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The analysis of Atfas1-4, a mutant defective for the histone chaperone CAF-1, sheds light on Arabidopsis meiotic recombination
Meiosis underpins sexual reproduction in higher eukaryotes. During this division, crossovers (COs) generate novel genotypes and guarantee the correct segregation of homologous chromosomes at anaphase I. The formation of COs is fine-tuned by several mechanisms. One of them, reported in some model organisms, is CO homeostasis, which ensures a stable number of COs despite variability in the number of initiating events. The analysis of Atfas1-4, which has a significant increase in double-strand breaks and in the frequency of gene conversion events, without a corresponding increase in COs, suggests the possible existence of a homeostatic control of COs in Arabidopsis. Varas et al.
Image Credit: Javier Varas
Citation: (2015) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 11(7) July 2015. PLoS Genet 11(7): ev11.i07. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v11.i07
Published: July 31, 2015
Copyright: © 2015 Javier Varas. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Meiosis underpins sexual reproduction in higher eukaryotes. During this division, crossovers (COs) generate novel genotypes and guarantee the correct segregation of homologous chromosomes at anaphase I. The formation of COs is fine-tuned by several mechanisms. One of them, reported in some model organisms, is CO homeostasis, which ensures a stable number of COs despite variability in the number of initiating events. The analysis of Atfas1-4, which has a significant increase in double-strand breaks and in the frequency of gene conversion events, without a corresponding increase in COs, suggests the possible existence of a homeostatic control of COs in Arabidopsis. Varas et al.
Image Credit: Javier Varas