... transcripts in pachytene spermatocytes of the meiotic prophase, Ovol1 -deficient germ cells were defective in progressing through the pachytene stage. The pachytene arrest was accompanied by an inefficient exit from proliferation, increased apoptosis and an abnormal nuclear localization of the G2-M cell cycle...

... at the pachytene stage of meiosis I. Epistasis analysis suggested that this gene executes its function succeeding gld-1 , which governs the early pachytene stage in the oogenic pathway. Spermatogenesis did not appear to be affected in daz-1 hermaphrodites. Males defective in daz-1 produced sperm fully competent...