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During meiosis, sister chromatids produced by chromosome duplication are held together by Rec8, a meiosis-specific cohesion protein. Rec8 joins the whole length of the sister chromatids together, and, as meiosis proceeds, is lost in a stepwise manner that correlates with the loss of sister-chromatid cohesion.
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Stoop-Myer, C., Amon, A. Meiosis: Rec8 is the reason for cohesion. Nat Cell Biol 1, E125–E127 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/12956
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