Like mitosis, meiosis also has distinct stages called prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. A key difference, however, is that during meiosis, each of these phases occurs twice — once ...

As in mitosis metaphase, (and unlike meiosis metaphase I), fibers from the centrioles begin to pull on each one of the chromosomes from both directions.

More information: Chao Xia et al, ChromTR: chromosome detection in raw metaphase cell images via deformable transformers, Frontiers of Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s11684-024-1098-y ...