When the weather turns cold, plants do more than slow their growth. Deep inside their reproductive cells, the very machinery ...

However, one plant — a South American beak-sedge called Rhynchospora tenuis — seems to represent a striking exception. Previous studies have reported that R. tenuis lacks crossover during male meiosis ...

Repetitive DNA and the D1 protein help matching fruit fly chromosomes recognize one another before eggs form.

Sexual reproduction usually reshuffles genetic information, creating offspring that differ from their parents. But one small ...

Meiotic recombination is a specialised process in which programmed DNA double-strand breaks initiate the exchange of genetic material between homologous chromosomes. This exchange forms crossovers ...

In a recent study, scientists from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) have utilized cutting-edge artificial intelligence methods to identify a region of the X ...