“…The organisms employed in these investigations include Bombyx (15,24,25,26,28), Homo (13,27), Lilium (12), Triticum (10), Zea (8), Drosophila (3,4,5), Saccharomyces (1), Schizophyllum (2), Neurospora (9) and Sordaria (31, 32) among others. Through these studies a common scheme for the basic events of the meiotic prophase at the ultrastructural level has evolved which has Abbreviations: sd = standard deviation.…”