Cueing up at the meiotic starting line

Friday, December 12, 2008 - 05:08 in Biology & Nature

Meiosis, the process of halving a germ cell's chromosomes in preparation for egg or sperm production, has been one of the most studied areas of cell biology. But in mammals, the field has been divided over the question of whether meiosis is triggered by a signal within a cell or by a signal coming from the cell's environment...

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