Genome Dynamics. Jean-Nicolas Volff Lyon. Michael Schmid Würzburg

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1 Meiosis

2 Genome Dynamics Vol. 5 Series Editor Jean-Nicolas Volff Lyon Executive Editor Michael Schmid Würzburg Advisory Board John F.Y. Brookfield Nottingham Jürgen Brosius Münster Pierre Capy Gif-sur-Yvette Brian Charlesworth Edinburgh Bernard Decaris Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy Evan Eichler Seattle, WA John McDonald Atlanta, GA Axel Meyer Konstanz Manfred Schartl Würzburg

3 Meiosis Volume Editors Ricardo Benavente Würzburg Jean-Nicolas Volff Lyon 26 figures, 25 in color, and 9 tables, 2009 Basel Freiburg Paris London New York Bangalore Bangkok Shanghai Singapore Tokyo Sydney

4 Prof. Ricardo Benavente Department of Cell and Developmental Biology Biocenter University of Würzburg Am Hubland D Würzburg (Germany) Prof. Jean-Nicolas Volff Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon 46 allée d'italie F Lyon Cedex 07 (France) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Meiosis / volume editors, Ricardo Benavente, Jean-Nicolas Volff. p. ; cm. -- (Genome dynamics, ISSN ; v. 5) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN (hard cover : alk. paper) 1. Meiosis. I. Benavente, Ricardo. II. Volff, Jean-Nicolas. III. Series. [DNLM: 1. Meiosis. W1 GE336DK v / QU 375 M ] QH605.M dc Bibliographic Indices. This publication is listed in bibliographic services, including Current Contents Disclaimer. The statements, opinions and data contained in this publication are solely those of the individual authors and contributors and not of the publisher and the editor(s). The appearance of advertisements in the book is not a warranty, endorsement, or approval of the products or services advertised or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Drug Dosage. The authors and the publisher have exerted every effort to ensure that drug selection and dosage set forth in this text are in accord with current recommendations and practice at the time of publication. However, in view of ongoing research, changes in government regulations, and the constant flow of information relating to drug therapy and drug reactions, the reader is urged to check the package insert for each drug for any change in indications and dosage and for added warnings and precautions. This is particularly important when the recommended agent is a new and/or infrequently employed drug. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be translated into other languages, reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, microcopying, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Copyright 2009 by S. Karger AG, P.O. Box, CH 4009 Basel (Switzerland) Printed in Switzerland on acid-free and non-aging paper (ISO 9706) by Reinhardt Druck, Basel ISSN ISBN e-isbn

5 Contents VII Preface Benavente, R. (Würzburg); Volff, J.-N. (Lyon) 1 The Meiotic Recombination Hotspots of Schizosaccharomyces pombe Pryce, D.W.; McFarlane, R.J. (Gwynedd) 14 Meiotic Recombination and Crossovers in Plants De Muyt, A.; Mercier, R.; Mézard, C.; Grelon, M. (Versailles) 26 Meiosis in Cereal Crops: the Grasses are Back Martinez-Perez, E. (Sheffield) 43 Homologue Pairing, Recombination and Segregation in Caenorhabditis elegans Zetka, M. (Montreal) 56 Homolog Pairing and Segregation in Drosophila Meiosis McKee, B.D. (Knoxville, Tenn.) 69 The Mammalian Synaptonemal Complex: A Scaffold and Beyond Yang, F.; Wang, P.J. (Philadelphia, Pa.) 81 The Dance Floor of Meiosis: Evolutionary Conservation of Nuclear Envelope Attachment and Dynamics of Meiotic Telomeres Alsheimer, M. (Würzburg) 94 Cohesin Complexes and Sister Chromatid Cohesion in Mammalian Meiosis Suja, J.A.; Barbero, J.L. (Madrid) 117 Variation in Patterns of Human Meiotic Recombination Khil, P.P.; Camerini-Otero, R.D. (Bethesda, Md.)

6 128 Maternal Origin of the Human Aneuploidies. Are Homolog Synapsis and Recombination to Blame? Notes (Learned) from the Underbelly Garcia-Cruz, R. (Barcelona); Roig, I. (New York, N.Y.); Garcia Caldés, M. (Barcelona) 137 Inverted Meiosis: The True Bugs as a Model to Study Viera, A.; Page, J.; Rufas, J.S. (Madrid) 157 Author Index 158 Subject Index VI Contents

7 Preface The fifth volume of the book series Genome Dynamics is dedicated to Meiosis. Meiosis is a special type of cell division through which haploid cells are generated from a diploid cell and therefore, a key event in the life of sexually reproducing organisms. Meiosis also represents the largest natural source of genetic variability that is a consequence of the recombination and segregation of the maternal and paternal sets of chromosomes. The field of meiosis research is a rapidly expanding one. Significant progress achieved in recent years has resulted from the use of suitable model systems as well as from the identification and characterization of proteins, many of them meiosis-specific, which are critically involved in key meiotic events. The present volume provides the reader with a series of authoritative review articles summarizing some of the most recent advances in the field of meiosis research. To this end most of the more commonly used model systems have been taken into account and compared. We wish to express our special thank you to all authors who have contributed to this volume with their excellent review articles and the referees for their expert assistance. Last, but not least, we wish to express our gratitude to Michael Schmid and his team for their invaluable editorial support. Ricardo Benavente, Würzburg Jean-Nicolas Volff, Lyon June 2008

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