“For example, opposite arms may be juxtaposed during prophase of meiosis, providing opportunities for gene-conversion type events.”

“Like the gregarines, however, the life cycle is primarily haploid, with diploidy only occurring before meiosis.”

“This is illustrated by the fact that a considerable number of genes are required specifically for both conjugation and meiosis.”

“In particular, the fact that the meiocyte is the inducible stage implies that through this route, androgenic haploids or DHs are not the only final product.”

“The derivation of our model centers on tetraploid species in which multivalent pairing is only one mechanism for chromosomal pairings during meioses.”

“They were able to work with 12 meioses and seven marker loci.”