INTRODUCING A REMARKABLE FORM OF CHROMOSOME THAT EXISTS DURING THE EXTENDED DIPLOTENE PHASE OF MEIOSIS IN THE GROWING OVARIAN EGGS OF MOST ANIMALS EXCEPT MAMMALS

Discovered in the late 19th Century in the eggs of an amphibian and a fish; currently at the centre of research into the molecular mechanism of RNA transcription and messenger RNA processing in the cell nucleus.

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Oscar Miller (1925 – 2011) – the technological genius of chromosome science
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School of Biosciences, University of Exeter

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