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Zalevsky J, MacQueen AJ, Duffy JB, Kemphues KJ, Villeneuve AM. Crossing over during Caenorhabditis elegans meiosis requires a conserved MutS-based pathway that is partially dispensable in budding yeast. Genetics. 1999 Nov;153(3):1271-83. doi: 10.1093/genetics/153.3.1271. PubMed PMID: 10545458; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1460811.

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Brent AE, MacQueen A, Hazelrigg T. The Drosophila wispy gene is required for RNA localization and other microtubule-based events of meiosis and early embryogenesis. Genetics. 2000 Apr;154(4):1649-62. doi: 10.1093/genetics/154.4.1649. PubMed PMID: 10747060; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1461017.

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White-Cooper H, Leroy D, MacQueen A, Fuller MT. Transcription of meiotic cell cycle and terminal differentiation genes depends on a conserved chromatin associated protein, whose nuclear localisation is regulated. Development. 2000 Dec;127(24):5463-73. doi: 10.1242/dev.127.24.5463. PubMed PMID: 11076766.

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MacQueen AJ, Villeneuve AM. Nuclear reorganization and homologous chromosome pairing during meiotic prophase require C. elegans chk-2. Genes Dev. 2001 Jul 1;15(13):1674-87. doi: 10.1101/gad.902601. PubMed PMID: 11445542; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC312723.

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MacQueen AJ, Colaiácovo MP, McDonald K, Villeneuve AM. Synapsis-dependent and -independent mechanisms stabilize homolog pairing during meiotic prophase in C. elegans. Genes Dev. 2002 Sep 15;16(18):2428-42. doi: 10.1101/gad.1011602. PubMed PMID: 12231631; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC187442.

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Colaiácovo MP, MacQueen AJ, Martinez-Perez E, McDonald K, Adamo A, La Volpe A, Villeneuve AM. Synaptonemal complex assembly in C. elegans is dispensable for loading strand-exchange proteins but critical for proper completion of recombination. Dev Cell. 2003 Sep;5(3):463-74. doi: 10.1016/s1534-5807(03)00232-6. PubMed PMID: 12967565.

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Gartner A, MacQueen AJ, Villeneuve AM. Methods for analyzing checkpoint responses in Caenorhabditis elegans. Methods Mol Biol. 2004;280:257-74. doi: 10.1385/1-59259-788-2:257. PubMed PMID: 15187259.

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MacQueen AJ, Baggett JJ, Perumov N, Bauer RA, Januszewski T, Schriefer L, Waddle JA. ACT-5 is an essential Caenorhabditis elegans actin required for intestinal microvilli formation. Mol Biol Cell. 2005 Jul;16(7):3247-59. doi: 10.1091/mbc.e04-12-1061. Epub 2005 May 4. PubMed PMID: 15872090; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1165408.

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MacQueen AJ, Phillips CM, Bhalla N, Weiser P, Villeneuve AM, Dernburg AF. Chromosome sites play dual roles to establish homologous synapsis during meiosis in C. elegans. Cell. 2005 Dec 16;123(6):1037-50. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2005.09.034. PubMed PMID: 16360034; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4435800.

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Tsubouchi T, Macqueen AJ, Roeder GS. Initiation of meiotic chromosome synapsis at centromeres in budding yeast. Genes Dev. 2008 Nov 15;22(22):3217-26. doi: 10.1101/gad.1709408. PubMed PMID: 19056898; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2593611.

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Macqueen AJ, Roeder GS. Fpr3 and Zip3 ensure that initiation of meiotic recombination precedes chromosome synapsis in budding yeast. Curr Biol. 2009 Sep 29;19(18):1519-26. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.08.048. Epub 2009 Sep 17. PubMed PMID: 19765989; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2926792.

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MacQueen AJ, Hochwagen A. Checkpoint mechanisms: the puppet masters of meiotic prophase. Trends Cell Biol. 2011 Jul;21(7):393-400. doi: 10.1016/j.tcb.2011.03.004. Epub 2011 Apr 29. Review. PubMed PMID: 21531561; NIHMSID:NIHMS719648.

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Zhang W, Miley N, Zastrow MS, MacQueen AJ, Sato A, Nabeshima K, Martinez-Perez E, Mlynarczyk-Evans S, Carlton PM, Villeneuve AM. HAL-2 promotes homologous pairing during Caenorhabditis elegans meiosis by antagonizing inhibitory effects of synaptonemal complex precursors. PLoS Genet. 2012;8(8):e1002880. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002880. Epub 2012 Aug 9. PubMed PMID: 22912597; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3415444.

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Voelkel-Meiman K, Moustafa SS, Lefrançois P, Villeneuve AM, MacQueen AJ. Full-length synaptonemal complex grows continuously during meiotic prophase in budding yeast. PLoS Genet. 2012;8(10):e1002993. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002993. Epub 2012 Oct 11. PubMed PMID: 23071451; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3469433.

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Voelkel-Meiman K, Taylor LF, Mukherjee P, Humphryes N, Tsubouchi H, Macqueen AJ. SUMO localizes to the central element of synaptonemal complex and is required for the full synapsis of meiotic chromosomes in budding yeast. PLoS Genet. 2013;9(10):e1003837. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003837. Epub 2013 Oct 3. PubMed PMID: 24098146; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3789832.

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Voelkel-Meiman K, Johnston C, Thappeta Y, Subramanian VV, Hochwagen A, MacQueen AJ. Separable Crossover-Promoting and Crossover-Constraining Aspects of Zip1 Activity during Budding Yeast Meiosis. PLoS Genet. 2015 Jun;11(6):e1005335. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005335. eCollection 2015 Jun. PubMed PMID: 26114667; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4482702.

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MacQueen AJ. Catching a (Double-Strand) Break: The Rad51 and Dmc1 Strand Exchange Proteins Can Co-occupy Both Ends of a Meiotic DNA Double-Strand Break. PLoS Genet. 2015 Dec;11(12):e1005741. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005741. eCollection 2015 Dec. PubMed PMID: 26720282; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4699915.

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Subramanian VV, MacQueen AJ, Vader G, Shinohara M, Sanchez A, Borde V, Shinohara A, Hochwagen A. Chromosome Synapsis Alleviates Mek1-Dependent Suppression of Meiotic DNA Repair. PLoS Biol. 2016 Feb;14(2):e1002369. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002369. eCollection 2016 Feb. PubMed PMID: 26870961; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4752329.

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Voelkel-Meiman K, Cheng SY, Morehouse SJ, MacQueen AJ. Synaptonemal Complex Proteins of Budding Yeast Define Reciprocal Roles in MutSγ-Mediated Crossover Formation. Genetics. 2016 Jul;203(3):1091-103. doi: 10.1534/genetics.115.182923. Epub 2016 May 16. PubMed PMID: 27184389; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4937465.

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MacQueen AJ, Rockmill B. Analysis of Meiotic Chromosome-Associated Protein Dynamics Using Conditional Expression in Budding Yeast. Methods Mol Biol. 2017;1471:157-174. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6340-9_8. PubMed PMID: 28349395.

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Markowitz TE, Suarez D, Blitzblau HG, Patel NJ, Markhard AL, MacQueen AJ, Hochwagen A. Reduced dosage of the chromosome axis factor Red1 selectively disrupts the meiotic recombination checkpoint in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLoS Genet. 2017 Jul;13(7):e1006928. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006928. eCollection 2017 Jul. PubMed PMID: 28746375; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5549997.

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Yisehak L, MacQueen AJ. HO Endonuclease-Initiated Recombination in Yeast Meiosis Fails To Promote Homologous Centromere Pairing and Is Not Constrained To Utilize the Dmc1 Recombinase. G3 (Bethesda). 2018 Nov 6;8(11):3637-3659. doi: 10.1534/g3.118.200641. PubMed PMID: 30254180; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6222578.

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West AM, Rosenberg SC, Ur SN, Lehmer MK, Ye Q, Hagemann G, Caballero I, Usón I, MacQueen AJ, Herzog F, Corbett KD. A conserved filamentous assembly underlies the structure of the meiotic chromosome axis. Elife. 2019 Jan 18;8. doi: 10.7554/eLife.40372. PubMed PMID: 30657449; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6349405.

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Voelkel-Meiman K, Cheng SY, Parziale M, Morehouse SJ, Feil A, Davies OR, de Muyt A, Borde V, MacQueen AJ. Crossover recombination and synapsis are linked by adjacent regions within the N terminus of the Zip1 synaptonemal complex protein. PLoS Genet. 2019 Jun;15(6):e1008201. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008201. eCollection 2019 Jun. PubMed PMID: 31220082; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6605668.

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Schilit SLP, Menon S, Friedrich C, Kammin T, Wilch E, Hanscom C, Jiang S, Kliesch S, Talkowski ME, Tüttelmann F, MacQueen AJ, Morton CC. SYCP2 Translocation-Mediated Dysregulation and Frameshift Variants Cause Human Male Infertility. Am J Hum Genet. 2020 Jan 2;106(1):41-57. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.11.013. Epub 2019 Dec 19. PubMed PMID: 31866047; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7042487.

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Voelkel-Meiman K, Oke A, Feil A, Shames A, Fung J, MacQueen AJ. A role for synaptonemal complex in meiotic mismatch repair. Genetics. 2022 Feb 4;220(2). doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyab230. PubMed PMID: 35100397; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9097268.

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Chigweshe L, MacQueen AJ, Holmes SG. Histone variant H2A.Z promotes meiotic chromosome axis organization in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. G3 (Bethesda). 2022 Jul 29;12(8). doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkac128. PubMed PMID: 35608312; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9339299.

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Börner GV, Hochwagen A, MacQueen AJ. Meiosis in budding yeast. Genetics. 2023 Oct 4;225(2). doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyad125. PubMed PMID: 37616582; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10550323.

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Voelkel-Meiman K, Liddle JC, Balsbaugh JL, MacQueen AJ. Proximity labeling reveals new functional relationships between meiotic recombination proteins in S. cerevisiae. PLoS Genet. 2024 Oct;20(10):e1011432. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011432. eCollection 2024 Oct. PubMed PMID: 39405359; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11508090.