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出典:『Wiktionary』 (2024/11/04 20:10 UTC 版)
meiome (plural meiomes)
出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2009/02/15 07:04 UTC 版)
Meiome is the term used in functional genomics for meiotic transcriptome. Meiosis is a key feature for all sexual reproducing eukaryotes in which homologous chromosome pairing, synapse and recombination are unique. Since meiosis in most organisms occur in a short time period, study of meiotic transcript profiling is extremely hard due to the chanllenge of isolation of meiotic cells. There are a list of groups studying on meiotic transcriptome using high throughput techniques such as microarray and sequencing technologies.