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What does diakinesis mean?

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Noun
  1. (cytology) the last stage of prophase, in which the nucleolus and nuclear envelope disappear, spindle fibers form, and the chromosomes shorten in preparation for anaphase.
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Haploid chromosome numbers were determined from cells in diakinesis, metaphase I, and metaphase II of meiosis.
However, in the mouse, cytogenetic examination of chiasmata at diakinesis has been widely used to study genetic recombination.
Slides containing F 2 worms were screened for the presence of worms with diakinesis nuclei exhibiting more than six chromatin masses.
In the present hybrids, evaluation of the chromosome pairing at diakinesis revealed that quadrivalents occur, but in low frequency, ranging from one to three.
Meiotic prophase can be further divided into leptotene, zygotene, pachytene, diplotene, and diakinesis stages defined by the state of chromosome pairing and condensation.
In wild-type hermaphrodites, germ cells at the dorsoventral flexure exit the pachytene stage of the first meiotic prophase and proceed to diakinesis.

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