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University of Vienna

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Picture of a nucleus, which will develop into an egg, imaged with structured Illumination Microscopy. It shows the aligned parental chromosomes (cyan). In yellow: the spots where DNA breaks will mature into a connection between the parental chromosomes. Surprisingly, this is where the RMI complex also acts (magenta)

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Copyright: Alexander Woglar, MFPL/ Stanford University

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