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Mechanism of Chromosome Pairing during Meiosis

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Electron microscopy with whole mount preparations has revealed that the synaptonemal complex merely pulls two homologous chromosomes together. Intimate molecular pairing is another matter—probably brought about by connexions between short stretches of single stranded DNA.

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COMINGS, D., OKADA, T. Mechanism of Chromosome Pairing during Meiosis. Nature 227, 451–456 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227451a0

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