In particular, it explains that humans have one fewer chromosome pair in their cells than apes, due to a mutation found in chromosome number 2 that caused two chromosomes to fuse into one.

Enlarging the focus to include organisms with novel meiotic formats would help to build a holistic view of not only pairing and HR events but also how these processes relate to chromosome ...

In particular, she found an unbalanced pair of chromosomes in male cells, and she named these structures "heterochromosomes." Similarly, American geneticist E. B. Wilson worked with several ...