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Protect chromosomes from end-to-end fusion during meiotic bouquet

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Acknowledgements

We thank Denise Zickler for discussions. This work was supported by Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (JQ201605), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31671293, 31771385) and the Fundamental Research Funds of Shandong University.

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  1. Center for Reproductive Medicine, Shandong University, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, The Key Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology of Ministry of Education, National Research Center for Assisted Reproductive Technology and Reproductive Genetics, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Jinan, 250001, China

    Shunxin Wang, Binyuan Zhai, Xiao Yang & Liangran Zhang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China

    Liangran Zhang

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Wang, S., Zhai, B., Yang, X. et al. Protect chromosomes from end-to-end fusion during meiotic bouquet. Sci. China Life Sci. 61, 736–738 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-018-9299-9

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