Sergey Matveevsky

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors performed karyotyping and comparative immunocytochemistry of chromosome synapsis and investigated the distribution of RAD51 and MLH1 foci in spread spermatocyte nuclei in meiotic prophase I.

TL;DR: The distribution of some markers of chromatin inactivation differentiates sex chromosomes of mole voles from those of other mammals, and similar chromosome morphology masks the functional heteromorphism of the male sex chromosomes, which can be seen at meiosis.

TL;DR: Evidence of considerable differences in the structure and behaviour of the axial structures of sex bivalents in male and female meiosis is presented, despite the isomorphic Gand C-banding patterns of mitotic sex chromosomes.

TL;DR: It is hypothesised that a possible mechanism leading to the change in centromere position is the repositioning and/or generation of a neocentromere, and analysed chromosome synapsis in prophase I of meiosis.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that the formation of monobrachial homologous metacentric chromosomes can be considered as a way of chromosomal speciation in mole voles is supported.