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Table 1.

Meiotic chromosome movement by species.

	Movement by	Type of Movement	Timing	Average Velocity	Mode of detection
S. pombe	Microtubules⁴⁵	Coordinated (horse-tail) ¹²	Throughout prophase I ⁹^,¹⁰^,¹²	∼83 nm/sec¹²	Leading edge of the stained DNA by Hoechst 33342 staining¹²
S. cerevisiae	Actin ⁹^,¹⁰	Solitary and coordinated ⁵^,⁶^,⁷	Throughout prophase I ⁹^,¹⁰^,¹²	200–500 nm/sec⁹^,¹⁰	Rap1-GFP⁹ ZIP1::GFP ¹⁰
Maize	Microtubules and actin⁸	Solitary and coordinated ⁸	Leptotene-zygotene transition and zygotene ⁶^,⁸^,¹⁶	∼400 nm/sec⁸	Heterochromatin knobs or chromosome ends by DAPI staining⁸
C. elegans	Microtubules⁴⁷	Solitary¹³^,¹⁴	Leptotene-zygotene¹³^,¹⁴	125–400 nm/sec¹³^,¹⁴	ZYG-12::GFP¹³ SUN-1::GFP¹⁴
Drosophila	Microtubules¹¹	Coordinated (nuclear rotations) ¹¹	Pre-meiotic (8- cell cyst)¹¹	300 nm/sec¹¹	CID-RFP¹¹
Mouse	Microtubules³⁹^,⁵⁷	Solitary and coordinated (nuclear rotations)⁵^,⁶^,⁷	Leptotene-zygotene⁶^,⁸^,¹⁶	109–120 nm/sec⁶	Pericentric heterochromatin by Hoechst 33342 staining⁶ and ^GFPTRF1⁷