University of Rochester research reveals that centromeres, which are responsible for proper cell division, can rapidly reorganize over short time scales. The discovery involves an intricate and ...

Six years ago, when Glennis Logsdon was a graduate student, everyone assumed that centromeres had conserved sequences and structures given their essential role in divvying up genetic material. “We had ...

Advancements in genome sequencing have challenged the long-standing belief that the position of the centromere in the chromosome is fixed. Researchers from Okayama University, Japan, have analyzed ...

In A17, centromeres are primarily composed of two tandem satellite repeats: CentM168 and the species-specific CentM183. In contrast, R108 centromeres consist almost exclusively of CentM168, ...

Due to their repetitive and complex DNA sequences, centromeres have been viewed as the "black boxes" of the genome for decades. Often overlooked in sequencing projects but playing a critical role in ...