Abstract
The mouse (Mus musculus) represents the central mammalian genetic model system for biomedical and developmental research. Mutant mouse models have provided important insights into chromosome dynamics during the complex meiotic differentiation program that compensates for the genome doubling at fertilization. Homologous chromosomes (homologues) undergo dynamic pairing and recombine during first meiotic prophase before they become partitioned into four haploid sets by two consecutive meiotic divisions that lack an intervening S-phase. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) has been instrumental in the visualization and imaging of the dynamic reshaping of chromosome territories and mobility during prophase I, in which meiotic telomeres were found to act as pacemakers for the chromosome pairing dance. FISH combined with immunofluorescence (IF) co-staining of nuclear proteins has been instrumental for the visualization and imaging of mammalian meiotic chromosome behavior. This chapter describes FISH and IF methods for the analysis of chromosome dynamics in nuclei of paraffin-embedded mouse testes. The techniques have proven useful for fresh and archived paraffin testis material of several mammalian species.
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This work was supported by a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SCHE350/10-1, SPP 1384). I thank Doris Illner for critical reading of the manuscript.
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Scherthan, H. (2017). Imaging of Chromosome Dynamics in Mouse Testis Tissue by Immuno-FISH. In: Stuart, D. (eds) Meiosis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1471. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6340-9_12
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