Proper number and placement of meiotic crossovers is vital to chromosome segregation, with failures in normal crossover distribution often resulting in aneuploidy and infertility. Meiotic crossovers ...

Objective Effects of the diet-induced gut microbiota dysbiosis reach far beyond the gut. We aim to uncover the direct evidence involving the gut–testis axis in the aetiology of impaired ...

Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Regulation of Metabolic Diseases, Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan, China Sertoli ...

ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare two chemical preservatives in terms of their sample preservation capabilities, considering the individual bacterial count (IBC) and ...

Confocal microscopy, magnification 600X. M - meiotic entry spermatocytes; L - leptotene; Ph - pachytene; PM - post-meiotic stages. To investigate molecular mechanisms of CDK8/19 mediated alterations ...

Studies of L1 expression in mouse gametogenesis indicate that L1 elements are expressed in the leptotene and zygotene stages of primary spermatocyte development, that is, during the meiotic ...

Recombination events in many organisms are concentrated in highly localized areas termed 'hot spots'. Hot spots can be detected by statistical analysis of genetic variation, analysis of pedigrees ...