Many generations of biologists have been intrigued by the myriad structures that eukaryotic chromosomes can adopt and have questioned how their form relates to function [1,2]. One organizational state that chromosomes adopt is pairing in a homology-dependent manner [3–8]. Although homolog pairing in meiosis has been extensively studied and is important for chromosome segregation, pairing of hom...

The analysis of the pattern of isochromosome pairing allows one to distinguish factors affecting presynaptic alignment of homologous chromosomes from those affecting synapsis and crossing-over. Because the two homologous arms in an isochromosome are invariably associated by a common centromere, the suppression of pairing between these arms (intrachromosome pairing) would indicate that synaptic ...

In this paper, a super-optimal pairing based on the Weil pairing is proposed with great efficiency. It is the first approach to reduce the Miller iteration loop when computing the variants of the Weil pairing. The super-optimal pairing based on the Weil pairing is computed rather fast, while it is slightly slower than the previous fastest pairing on the corresponding elliptic curves.