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. 2024:2770:263-285.
doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3698-5_17.

"MeiQuant": An Integrated Tool for Analyzing Meiotic Prophase I Spread Images

Julien Cau  1 , Laurine Dal Toe  2 , Akbar Zainu  3 , Frédéric Baudat  4 , Thomas Robert  5
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"MeiQuant": An Integrated Tool for Analyzing Meiotic Prophase I Spread Images

Julien Cau et al. Methods Mol Biol. 2024.

Abstract

Immunocytochemical analysis of meiotic proteins on mouse chromosome spreads is one method of choice to study prophase I chromosome organization and homologous recombination. In recent decades, the development of microscopic approaches led to the production of a large number of images that monitor fluorescent proteins, defined as fluorescent objects, and a major challenge facing the community is the deep analysis of these fluorescent objects (measurement of object length, intensity, distance between objects, as well as foci identification, counting, and colocalization). We propose a set of tools designed from the macro language of the widely used image analysis software ImageJ (Schindelin et al., Nat Methods 9: 676-682, 2012), embedded in the "MeiQuant" macro, which are specifically designed for analyzing objects in the field of meiosis. Our aim is to propose a unified evolutive common tool for image analysis, with a specific focus on mouse prophase I meiotic events.

Keywords: Chromosome structure; Foci count; Homologous recombination; Image analysis; ImageJ; Intensity measurement; MeiQuant; Meiosis; Protein localization.

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