... model, DNA regions that areunder active transcription are attached to a specifictranscription factory, in which transcriptionalmachinery proteins are aggregated, and those DNAregions that are not ... undergoing transcription pro-trude from the factory and form a chromatin cloud;therefore, a chromosome appears as a linear array ofmany factories and clouds. In meiosis, chromosomesare aligned in ... meiosisDa-Qiao Ding1, Tokuko Haraguchi1,2,3and Yasushi Hiraoka1,2,31 Kobe Advanced ICT Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kobe, Japan2 Graduate School...