PMID-sentid Pub_year Sent_text comp_official_name comp_offsetprotein_name organism prot_offset 27172213-7 2016 Interestingly, Rec8, Rad21L double mutants resulted in an earlier "leptotene-like" arrest, accompanied by complete absence of STAG3 loading. leptotene 67-76 REC8 meiotic recombination protein Mus musculus 15-19 22711701-3 2012 In this paper, we show that spermatocytes from mice lacking the two meiosis-specific cohesin subunits RAD21L and REC8 were unable to initiate RAD51- but not DMC1-mediated double-strand break repair, were not able to assemble their AEs, and arrested as early as the leptotene stage of prophase I, demonstrating that cohesin plays an essential role in AE assembly that is conserved from yeast to mammals. leptotene 265-274 REC8 meiotic recombination protein Mus musculus 113-117