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Thus, synapsis in\n            <jats:italic>Drosophila</jats:italic>\n            is independent of meiotic recombination, consistent with a model in which synapsis is required for the initiation of meiotic recombination. Furthermore, the basic processes of early meiosis may have different functional or temporal relations, or both, in yeast and\n            <jats:italic>Drosophila</jats:italic>\n            .\n          </jats:p>","journal":"Science","year":1998,"id":42326,"datarank":11.213153825625934,"base_score":5.69035945432406,"endowment":5.69035945432406,"self_citation_contribution":0.8535539181486091,"citation_network_contribution":10.359599907477325,"self_endowment_contribution":0.8535539181486091,"citer_contribution":10.359599907477325,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":295,"citer_count":200,"citers_with_citation_signal":200,"citers_with_endowment":200,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":202762,"name":"Becky L. 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