The centromere is necessary for the transport of chromosomes during cell division and, therefore, for the correct ...

Centromeres are curious structures. These specially organized chromosomal regions are best known for their unique and critical role in cell division, in which they are well understood to serve as the ...

The centromere is a complex chromosomal structure responsible for proper chromosome/chromatid segregation at meiosis and mitosis. In almost all eukaryotes, centromeres are found at specific locations ...

The histone protein CenH3 is both necessary and sufficient to trigger the formation of centromeres and pass them on from one generation to the next. Centromeres are specialised regions of the genome, ...

About a third to two-thirds down the shaft of a chromosome is a constricted site called the centromere. When a chromosome replicates, the old and new pair (called chromatids) are held together at this ...

Probing the last genomic frontier of higher organisms, an international team of scientists has succeeded in sequencing a little understood - but critical - genetic domain in rice. MADISON - Probing ...

Just like you might use a belt to keep your clothes in place, the centromere holds a pair of chromatids together and attaches it to the mitotic spindle during cell division to ensure that each ...

Super-resolution microscopy image of a mitotic chromosome (white) with the centromeres of each sister chromatid depicted in orange. Each centromere consists of two distinct chromatin subdomains ...

Some of the most important chapters in fruit flies’ genetic instruction book have finally been decoded. For the first time, researchers have deciphered, or sequenced, the genetic makeup of all of a ...

Osaka, Japan – The genetic material inside cells is organized into structures called chromosomes. The centromere is essential for the correct division of the chromosomes via interaction with spindle ...

After sequencing centromeres in humans and other primates, researchers found that they vary greatly across species and potentially contribute to aging and disease. One reason scientists remained ...