Whence meiosis?
Sexual reproduction predominates among eukaryotic organisms on our planet. While debate continues over why this should be so, burgeoning genomic and functional information now allows us to begin to think reasonably about some of the events that may have occurred to make sex possible in the first place.
Villeneuve
A M
AM
Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. villen@cmgm.stanford.edu
Hillers
K J
KJ
D000818:Animals; D003434:Crossing Over, Genetic; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008322:Mammals; D008540:Meiosis / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D012098:Reproduction / Q000502:physiology*