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This article discusses the significance of a research article by Katajima et al. in the same issue. The authors of the latter have found a protein called shugoshin in a species of yeast that seems to cause cohesion of homologous chromosomes during meiosis I.
- de Lange, T. "Ending Up with the Right Partner." Nature, April 23, 1998.
Addresses the question of how homologous chromosomes find each other during meiosis.
- Gould, S. J. "Ghosts of Bell Curves Past." Natural History, February 1995.
A famous evolutionary biologist argues against a best-selling book about the genetic contribution to intelligence.
- Haber, J. E. "Searching for a Partner." Science, February 6, 1998.
Contains a summary of recent discoveries about crossing over and synapses in different organisms.
- Martinez-Perrez, E., and G. Moore. "Promiscuous Maize Chromosomes." Science, January 2, 2004.
This Perspectives article puts into context a research article by Pawlowski et al. showing that homologous pairing is apparently not necessary in order for recombination to occur.
- Ridley, M. "Is Sex Good for Anything?" New Scientist, December 4, 1993.
Did disease play an important role in the evolution of sex?
- Sluder, G., and D. McCollum. "The Mad Ways of Meiosis." Science, July 14, 2000.
A signaling protein called Mad2 seems to be essential for the proper segregation of chromosomes during meiosis