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Synaptonemal complexes of Xenopus laevis
1Department of Cytology and Genetics, University of Vienna, Austria.
The Journal of Heredity
|July 1, 1992
Abstract:
Synaptonemal complexes (SCs) have been analyzed in spread Xenopus spermatocytes and oocytes. They showed all the usual features of animal SCs in addition to a high incidence of centromere mismatching. A centriole pair is visible throughout zygotene and pachytene. At zygotene the ends of SCs are markedly thickened and are clustered at the nuclear periphery.