Published in PLoS Genet on October 10, 2006
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The meiotic recombination checkpoint suppresses NHK-1 kinase to prevent reorganisation of the oocyte nucleus in Drosophila. PLoS Genet (2010) 0.90
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The cohesion protein SOLO associates with SMC1 and is required for synapsis, recombination, homolog bias and cohesion and pairing of centromeres in Drosophila Meiosis. PLoS Genet (2013) 0.82
The conserved kinase SRPK regulates karyosome formation and spindle microtubule assembly in Drosophila oocytes. J Cell Sci (2012) 0.81
Functional interactions of Rec24, the fission yeast ortholog of mouse Mei4, with the meiotic recombination-initiation complex. J Cell Sci (2011) 0.81
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A mosaic genetic screen for genes involved in the early steps of Drosophila oogenesis. G3 (Bethesda) (2013) 0.79
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Vilya, a component of the recombination nodule, is required for meiotic double-strand break formation in Drosophila. Elife (2015) 0.78
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The consequences of sequence erosion in the evolution of recombination hotspots. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2017) 0.75
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