Prophase (from Ancient Greek προ- (pro-) 'before' and φάσις (phásis) 'appearance') is the first stage of cell division in both mitosis and meiosis. Beginning...

replication, meiotic cells enter a prolonged G2-like stage known as meiotic prophase. During this time, homologous chromosomes pair with each other and undergo...

start of the next. These stages are preprophase (specific to plant cells), prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. During mitosis, the...

selection to act on. In prophase I of meiosis I, each chromosome is aligned with its homologous partner and pairs completely. In prophase I, the DNA has already...

oocytes needed for future ovulations, and these oocytes are arrested at the prophase I stage of meiosis. In humans, as an example, oocytes are formed between...

not pass this checkpoint, it results in the cell exiting the cell cycle. Prophase is the first stage of division. The nuclear envelope begins to be broken...

during meiosis and is thought to mediate synapsis and recombination during prophase I during meiosis in eukaryotes. It is currently thought that the SC functions...

phases of genetic recombination, which occurs in the pachytene stage of prophase I of meiosis during a process called synapsis. Synapsis begins before the...

first stage of mitosis, but since mitosis is the division of the nucleus, prophase is actually the first stage. In interphase, the cell gets itself ready...

monoamine transporter (PMAT) Four phases of mitosis: prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. Prophase: Chromatin into chromosomes, the nuclear envelope...

meiotic crossing over. It then stops in early prophase. Mammalian oocytes are maintained in meiotic prophase arrest for a very long time—months in mice,...

"thick threads".: 27 ), also known as pachynema, is the third stage of prophase I during meiosis, the specialized cell division that reduces chromosome...

possible chromosomal crossover between them. Synapsis takes place during prophase I of meiosis. When homologous chromosomes synapse, their ends are first...

does not occur in other eukaryotes such as animals or fungi. It precedes prophase and is characterized by two distinct events: The formation of the preprophase...

there are five stages of cell division: Prophase, Prometaphase, Metaphase, Anaphase, and Telophase. During prophase, two aster-covered centrosomes migrate...

during which the cell’s DNA is replicated. G2 phase ends with the onset of prophase, the first phase of mitosis in which the cell’s chromatin condenses into...

Zygotene (from greek "paired threads") is the second stage of prophase I during meiosis, the specialized cell division that reduces the chromosome number...

this is due to higher rates of degeneration of germ cells during meiotic prophase. In the following table, ploidy, copy number and chromosome/chromatid counts...

cells of the female salamander. Synapsis and recombination during meiotic prophase I in these unisexual females is thought to ordinarily occur between identical...

transform into the lampbrush form during the diplotene stage of meiotic prophase I due to an active transcription of many genes. They are highly extended...

its recently formed subsidiary, ProPhase Precision Medicine, Inc., for about $14.6 million in a combination of ProPhase Labs common stock and cash. BGI...

primary oocytes are present at an intermediate stage of meiosis, termed prophase I (see Oogenesis). Expression of four key DNA repair genes that are necessary...

cleave the cohesin subunits holding the chromatids together. Interphase Prophase Prometaphase Metaphase Telophase Cytoskeleton Anaphase I Anaphase II Cdc20...

mitosis but lost on the arms. This removal of cohesin is known as the Prophase Pathway and results in the X-shape sister chromatids observed in chromosome...

Prometaphase is the phase of mitosis following prophase and preceding metaphase in eukaryotic somatic cells. In prometaphase, the nuclear membrane breaks...

Fluorescence microscope image of two mouse cell nuclei in prophase (scale bar is 5 μm)...

activities and the start of the next. These phases are sequentially known as: prophase prometaphase metaphase anaphase telophase Mitosis is the process by which...

leptotene stage, also known as leptonema, is the first of five substages of prophase I during meiosis, the specialized cell division that reduces the chromosome...

chromomeres are present during leptotene phase of prophase I during meiosis. During zygotene phase of prophase I, the chromomeres of homologs align with each...

follicles. Primordial follicles contain oocytes that are at an intermediate (prophase I) stage of meiosis. Meiosis is the general process in eukaryotic organisms...