How To Use Synapsis In A Sentence

It has long been thought that the grouping of telomeres is important for chromosome pairing and subsequent synapsis.
It has long been thought that the grouping of telomeres is important for chromosome pairing and subsequent synapsis.
Some chromosomes may be unable to re-establish homologous synapsis after the insertion.
These findings suggest that the extensive protein modification that occurs to prepare chromosomes for synapsis and recombination may provide at least a partial mechanism by which rereplication is blocked.
Several of these articles dealt with mutants affecting synapsis, meiosis, or disjunction.

Zygotene and pachytene chromosomes can be distinguished by their different morphology due to the extent of synapsis.
A small portion of the distal end of the long arm is asynapsed, indicating that the SC has begun desynapsis and is in the earliest stage of diplotene.
It was proposed that these sites mediated the initial interactions between homologous chromosomes leading to synapsis and recombination.
Neither fold backs and pairing partner switches characteristic of nonhomologous synapsis nor univalent chromosomes were observed, although some short regions at distal ends of chromosomes could be unsynapsed (image not shown).