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Record W1976477742 · doi:10.1159/000132251

An investigation of human sperm pronuclear chromosome “gaps” using scanning electron microscopy

2008· article· en· W1976477742 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueCytogenetics and Cell Genetics · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicChromosomal and Genetic Variations
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCentromereBiologyChromatinChromosomeSpermMetaphaseScanning electron microscopeGiemsa stainHamsterHuman fertilizationChromatidElectron microscopeFiberMolecular biologyGeneticsBiophysicsDNAOpticsMaterials scienceGene

Abstract

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A common cytogenetic finding in both Q-banded and solid Giemsa-stained preparations of pronuclear chromosomes obtained from cross-species fertilization of hamster oocytes by human sperm is the presence of a variable-length "gap" in the centromeric region. Scanning electron microscopy was used to investigate these altered chromosomal regions. The centromere in most eukaryotic organisms appears as a constricted region approximately 200-300 nm in diameter. In contrast, the gap portion of the centromeric region of pronuclear chromosomes was found to contain a chromatin fiber with a diameter of 80-150 nm. The detection of this fiber confirms that the chromosome arms are continuous, and the size of the fiber explains the gap appearance in the light photomicrographs. The morphology of the fiber is consistent with the concept that the normal chromatin packaging has been altered in varied regions within the centromere of these chromosomes.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.044
Threshold uncertainty score0.389

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.254
Teacher spread0.223 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it