How To Use diakinesis In A Sentence
- Slides containing F 2 worms were screened for the presence of worms with diakinesis nuclei exhibiting more than six chromatin masses (indicating failure in bivalent formation).
- Twelve univalent chromosomes are visible in this diakinesis-stage nucleus, indicating an absence of chiasmata.
- In wild-type hermaphrodites, germ cells at the dorsoventral flexure exit the pachytene stage of the first meiotic prophase and proceed to diakinesis.
- Meiotic prophase can be further divided into leptotene, zygotene, pachytene, diplotene, and diakinesis stages defined by the state of chromosome pairing and condensation.
- Their nuclei contain univalents as well as bivalents at diakinesis and metaphase I.
- Loose condensation of chromosomes was observed in 12% of the cells from diakinesis to anaphase.
- Their nuclei contain univalents as well as bivalents at diakinesis and metaphase I.
- For F59A1.7, affected worms exhibiting a high frequency of achiasmate chromosomes at diakinesis also had abnormally large nuclei at the pachytene stage, earlier in meiotic prophase.
- Mutants in all three meiotic genes display diakinesis oocytes containing 12 individual DAPI - stained bodies corresponding to achiasmate univalent chromosomes.
- However, in the mouse, cytogenetic examination of chiasmata at diakinesis has been widely used to study genetic recombination.
