Those germ cells that enter meiosis become oocytes, the source of future eggs. Consequently, females are born with a finite number of oocytes arrested in the first meiotic prophase. Within the ...

As in prophase I, the chromosomes condense, spindles form, the centrioles begin to separate, and the nuclear membrane fragments and disperses. Unlike prophase I, the chromosomes do not attach to ...

IN a preliminary study of chiasmata in female mice the meiotic prophase was observed in sixty-two females from a variety of strains, mostly outbred. It was found that in all strains the oogonial ...

In a previous study, the team identified a meiosis switch gene MEIOSIN ... showed that HSF5 plays an essential role in the meiotic prophase progression in male germ cells under non-stress conditions.