In an advance in legume genomics, researchers from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese ...

Cell division is an essential process by which living organisms grow, replenish lost cells, and regenerate dead and damaged ...

Advancements in genome sequencing have challenged the long-standing belief that the position of the centromere in the ...

Centromeres hold the arms of chromosomes together and initiate their separation into the daughter cells during cell division.

Cell division is an essential process by which living organisms grow, replenish lost cells, and regenerate dead and damaged tissues. When a parent ...

First view of centromere variation and evolution Critical for accurate transmission of chromosomes during cell division, centromeres differ vastly in size, structure and epigenetic makeup Date ...

Defining the centromere Roles of kinetochores in cell division Date: October 21, 2019 Source: Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research Summary: Centromeres are the chromosomal ...

Some scientists call it the "final frontier" of our DNA -- even though it lies at the center of every X-shaped chromosome in nearly every one of our cells. It's called the centromere, and it plays a ...

Centromere-specific tandemly arranged DNA repeats vary in length and nucleotide sequence between species. The puzzling observation that centromeres can consist of highly variable sequences despite ...

By phosphorylating two specific protein groups involved in the centromere, PLK-1 functionally creates a queue of the protein that the centromere actually needs, known as CENP-A.

Centromeres are specialized chromosomal domains that direct kinetochore assembly during mitosis. CENP-A (centromere protein A), a histone H3-variant present exclusively in centromeric nucleosomes ...