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Chromosome pairing behaviour of the allotetraploid Aegilops species sharing the D genome, Ae. crassa (DDMM), Ae. cylindrica (DDCC) and Ae. ventricosa (DDNN), was analyzed by electron microscopy in surfacespread prophase-I nuclei. Synaptonemal-complex analysis at zygotene and pachytene revealed that synapsis in the allotetraploids was mostly between homologous chromosomes, although a few multivalents were also formed. Only homologous bivalents were observed at metaphase-I. It is concluded that the mechanism controlling bivalent formation in these species acts mainly at zygotene by restricting pairing to homologous chromosomes, but also acts at pachytene by preventing chiasma formation in homoeologous associations. These observations are discussed in relation to mechanisms of diploidization of polyploid meiosis.
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Cuñado, N., García, M.J., Callejas, S. et al. The pattern of zygotene and pachytene pairing in allotetraploid Aegilops species sharing the D genome. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 93, 1175–1179 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00230143
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