Meiosis: Publications

Conformational asymmetry of replicated human chromosomes

Flavia Corsi, Thomas L. Steinacker, Sofia Kolesnikova, Zsuzsanna Takács, Paul Batty, Michael Mitter, Daniel W. Gerlich, Anton Goloborodko

SCIENCE 3 Sep 2026 Vol 393, Issue 6815

Synaptonemal complex SUMOylation is maintained by Nup60-dependent docking of Ulp1 at the nuclear periphery

Rahel Wettstein, Grant A. King, Adrian Henggeler, Madison E. Walsh, Cyrus T. Ruediger, Elçin Ünal, and Joao Matos

Cell Reports 45, 117539, June 23, 2026

Distinct and overlapping roles of MutLγ, Mus81-Mms4, and STR in meiotic Holliday junction processing

Lucija Orlić, Adrian Henggeler, Jázmin Nagy & Joao Matos

Nat Commun (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-73888-2

Combinatorial effects of multiple genes contribute to beneficial aneuploidy phenotypes

M Sophie Koller, Claudia Himmelbauer, Sarah Fink, Madhwesh C Ravichandran & Christopher S Campbell

EMBO Rep (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44319-026-00767-8

BAF-1–VRK-1 mediated release of meiotic chromosomes from the nuclear periphery is important for genome integrity

Dimitra Paouneskou, Antoine Baudrimont, Réka Kelemen, Marwan Elkrewi, Angela Graf, Shehab Moukbel Ali Aldawla, Claudia Kölbl, Irene Tiemann-Boege, Beatriz Vicoso & Verena Jantsch

Nat Commun 16, 10446 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65420-9

In vitro approaches to study centriole and cilium function in early mouse embryogenesis

Isabella Voelkl, Tamara Civetta, Mirijam Egg, Marie Huber, Songjie Feng, Alexander Dammermann, Christa Buecker

Life Science Alliance Oct 2025, 9 (1) e202503358; DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202503358

Bloom helicase contributes to successful crossover formation with both catalytic and structural roles in Caenorhabditis elegans meiosis

Sowmya Sivakumar Geetha, Ivana Čavka, Maria Rosaria Dello Stritto, Angela Graf,Tomas Macha, Hannah Krakolinig, Simone Köhler, Verena Jantsch.

Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 53, Issue 19, 28 October 2025, gkaf1030, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf1030

Holliday junction–ZMM protein feedback enables meiotic crossover assurance

Adrian Henggeler, Lucija Orlić, Daniel Velikov & Joao Matos

Henggeler, A., Orlić, L., Velikov, D. et al. Holliday junction–ZMM protein feedback enables meiotic crossover assurance. Nature (2025). https://doi-org.uaccess.univie.ac.at/10.1038/s41586-025-09559-x

Allele frequency selection and no age-related increase in human oocyte mitochondrial mutations

Barbara Arbeithuber, Kate Anthony, Bonnie Higgins, Peter Oppelt, Omar Shebl, Irene Tiemann-Boege, Francesca Chiaromonte, Thomas Ebner, Kateryna D. Makova

Arbeithuber et al., Sci. Adv. 11, eadw4954 (2025

Rules of engagement for condensins and cohesins guide mitotic chromosome formation

Kumiko Samejima, Johan H Gibcus, Sameer Abraham, Fernanda Cisneros-Soberanis, Itaru Samejima, Alison J Beckett, Nina Puǎčeková, Maria Alba Abad, Christos Spanos, Bethan Medina-Pritchard, James R Paulson, Linfeng Xie, A Arockia Jeyaprakash, Ian A Prior, Leonid A Mirny, Job Dekker, Anton Goloborodko, William C Earnshaw

K. Samejima et al., Science 388, eadq1709 (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.adq1709

Processing and Visualization of Protec-Seq Data for the Generation of Calibrated, Genome-Wide Double Double-Strand Break (dDSB) Maps

Doris Chen, Martin Xaver & Franz Klein

Methods Mol Biol. 2025;2856:401-418. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-4136-1_23.

Single-nucleus atlas of the Artemia female reproductive system suggests germline repression of the Z chromosome

Marwan Elkrewi, Beatriz Vicoso

PLoS Genet 20(8): e1011376.

Maternal inheritance of functional centrioles in two parthenogenetic nematodes

Aurélien Perrier, Nadège Guiglielmoni, Delphine Naquin, Kevin Gorrichon, Claude Thermes, Sonia Lameiras, Alexander Dammermann, Philipp H. Schiffer, Maia Brunstein, Julie C. Canman & Julien Dumont

Nature Communications | ( 2024) 15:6042 1

Selection forces underlying aneuploidy patterns in cancer

Tamara C. Klockner and Christopher S. Campbell

MOLECULAR & CELLULAR ONCOLOGY 2024, VOL. 11, NO. 1, 2369388

Waves of regulated protein expression and phosphorylation rewire the proteome to drive gametogenesis in budding yeast

Rahel Wettstein, Jannik Hugener, Ludovic Gillet, Yi Hernández-Armenta, Adrian Henggeler, Jingwei Xu, Julian van Gerwen, Florian Wollweber, Meret Arter, Ruedi Aebersold, Pedro Beltrao, Martin Pilhofer, Joao Matos

Developmental Cell 59, 1–19, July 8, 2024

FilamentID reveals the composition and function of metabolic enzyme polymers during gametogenesis

Jannik Hugener, Jingwei Xu, Rahel Wettstein, Lydia Ioannidi, Daniel Velikov, Florian Wollweber, Adrian Henggeler, Joao Matos, Martin Pilhofer

Cell187,3303–3318,June20,2024

Sororin is an evolutionary conserved antagonist of WAPL

Ignacio Prusén Mota, Marta Galova, Alexander Schleiffer, Tan-Trung Nguyen, Ines Kovacikova, Carolina Farias Saad, Gabriele Litos, Tomoko Nishiyama, Juraj Gregan, Jan-Michael Peters & Peter Schlögelhofer

Nature Communications | ( 2024) 15:4729

Exploring FGFR3 Mutations in the Male Germline: Implications for Clonal Germline Expansions and Paternal Age-Related Dysplasias

Sofia Moura, Ingrid Hartl, Veronika Brumovska, Peter P Calabrese, Atena Yasari, Yasmin Striedner, Marina Bishara, Theresa Mair, Thomas Ebner, Gerhard J Schütz, Eva Sevcsik, Irene Tiemann-Boege

Genome Biol. Evol. 16(2)

Physical interaction with Spo11 mediates the localisation of Mre11 to chromatin in meiosis and promotes its nuclease activity

Rakesh Aithal, Kuldeep Nangalia, Mario Spirek, Doris Chen, Franz Klein, Lumir Krejci

Nucleic Acids Research, gkae111

Exploring the Micro-Mosaic Landscape of FGFR3 Mutations in the Ageing Male Germline and Their Potential Implications in Meiotic Differentiation

Yasmin Striedner, Barbara Arbeithuber, Sofia Moura, Elisabeth Nowak, Ronja Reinhardt, Leila Muresan, Renato Salazar, Thomas Ebner and Irene Tiemann-Boege

Genes 2024, 15(2), 191

The Scorpionfly (Panorpa cognata) Genome Highlights Conserved and Derived Features of the Peculiar Dipteran X Chromosome

Clementine Lasne, Marwan Elkrewi, Melissa A Toups, Lorena Layana, Ariana Macon, Beatriz Vicoso

Mol. Biol. Evol. 40(12):msad245

The topoisomerase 3 zinc finger domain cooperates with the RMI1 scaffold to promote stable association of the BTR complex to recombination intermediates in the Caenorhabditis elegans germline. Nucleic Acids Research 2022

Maria Rosaria Dello Stritto, Nina Vojtassakova, Maria Velkova, Patricia Hamminger, Patricia Ulm, Verena Jantsch

Nucleic Acids Research, 2022, Vol. 50, No. 10

The CDK1-TOPBP1-PLK1 axis regulates the Bloom’s syndrome helicase BLM to suppress crossover recombination in somatic cells

Balbo Pogliano C, Ceppi I, Giovannini S, Petroulaki V, Palmer N, Uliana F, Gatti M, Kasaciunaite K, Freire R, Seidel R, Altmeyer M, Cejka P, Matos

Balbo Pogliano et al., Sci. Adv.8, eabk0221 (2022)

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