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During meiosis homologous chromosomes replicate, pair to form a "bivalent," experience a high rate of recombination, and undergo two rounds of chromosome segregation to produce haploid meiotic products.
The rec12 mutants were proficient at meiosis and underwent two meiotic divisions as revealed by ascus development and the distribution of chromosomes.
PCS of homologues during meiosis I and equational division of sister chromatids during anaphase I [ 56 57 ] and premature separation of chromatids during meiosis II [ 58 59 ] and mitosis [ 60 61 ] have been shown to increase the incidence of aneuploidy in subsequent divisions.
It has been suggested previously [ 38 ] that these phenotypes are characteristic of a defect in meiosis II because spore formation in S. pombe is controlled by the spindle pole body of the MII spindle [ 40 41 42 ] .
Proteasomes translocated to meiotic spindles of rat oocytes and MG-132 induced-inhibition of proteasomal activity resulted in partial segregation of chromosomes during meiosis I [ 42 ] . Moreover, defective proteasomal activity in fission yeast impaired chromosome segregation [ 38 ] .