A genomic study of human and selected nonhuman primate centromeres has revealed their unimaginable diversity and speed of evolutionary change. In cell genetics, a centromere is the spot where two ...

The findings were published in the journal Nature. The centromere is the thinnest part of the chromosome that divides it into ...

With a few exceptions, eukaryotic chromosomes have a single centromere that ensures their accurate segregation during mitosis. Chromosomes that lack centromeres segregate randomly during mitosis ...

In the absence of DDM1 and RNAi, this TE doesn’t produce small RNAs, so the centromere is not methylated. These mutants also had few epigenetic tags on their histones, which contribute to the ...

They found that two protein complexes work together to determine the centromere distribution during cell division: condesin II (CII) and the linker of nucleoskeleton and cotoskeleton (LINC). “The ...

To convert a piece of cloned DNA into a centromere-containing human artificial chromosome (HAC), an array of repeated LacO sequences is incorporated into the DNA. The DNA is then transfected into ...