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Science 2 January 2004:
Vol. 303. no. 5654, pp. 49 - 50
DOI: 10.1126/science.1093532
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Perspectives

PLANT SCIENCES:
Promiscuous Maize Chromosomes

Enrique Martinez-Perez and Graham Moore

The intricate chromosome dance that characterizes meiotic cell division involves careful coordination of chromosome pairing, recombination, and synapsis. In their Perspective, Martinez-Perez and Moore discuss new work that identifies the PHS1 protein in maize as being a key player in the coordination of these three events (Pawlowski et al.).

E. Martinez-Perez is in the Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. G. Moore is at the John Innes Centre, Colney, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK.

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