After three years of experiments, IRB Barcelona postdoctoral researchers Petra Mikolcevic and Michitaka Isoda describe the molecular imbalances that
occur during meiosis as a result of the absence of this protein.
Not exact matches
Mutations can be caused by copying errors in the genetic material
during cell division and by exposure to radiation, chemicals, or viruses, or can
occur deliberately under cellular control
during the processes such as
meiosis or hypermutation.
This parceling process, called
meiosis,
occurs twice in the egg cell — once
during a woman's fetal development and a second time as the egg is released from the ovary.
In Drosophila, pairing
occurs during the mitotic cycles preceding
meiosis.