pachytene

NOUN
  1. the third stage of the prophase of meiosis
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  • In severely degenerated tubules, only spermatogonia and Sertoli cells were observed, and pachytene spermatocytes sloughing into the lumen were observed.
  • Pachytene chromosomes were prepared using squashes of anthers from flowers fixed in 3: 1 ethanol to galacial acetic acid.
  • Each chromosome is identifiable by its relative length, by the location of its centromere, which is readily observed at the pachytene stage, and by the individuality of the chromomeres strung along the length of each chromosome. Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge
  • Homologous chromosomes are fully aligned at the pachytene stage, and germ cells survive to complete meiosis and gametogenesis with high efficiency.
  • RAD51 foci disappeared in both genotypes at late pachytene just before diplotene.
  • Surprisingly, most gld - 2; gld - 3 germ cells arrested in pachytene, a synthetic phenotype suggesting redundancy for progression into diplotene (data not shown).
  • This SC karyotype is very similar to karyotypes developed from pachytene chromosome squashes.
  • During pachytene, the chromosomes are less condensed and much longer than in mitotic metaphases.
  • A bivalent B chromosome was removed directly from a pachytene slide by a micromanipulator.
  • This structural heterozygosity correlates with both a previously described recombination block and cytologically visible unpaired chromosomes at pachytene.
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