The modern cultivated strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) originates from interspecific hybridization between two octoploid wild ...

The centromere, a specialized region of the chromosome, serves as a recruitment platform for diverse proteins crucial for maintaining sister chromatid cohesion and for the assembly of kinetochores.

The modern cultivated strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) originates from interspecific hybridization between two octoploid wild ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. One reason scientists remained unaware of the rich diversity of centromeres was because of how tough they are to sequence. “In fact, most people ...

Michael Lampson, PhD is a cell biologist at the University of Pennsylvania. His research group focuses on cell division, centromere function in the germline, and the cell biology of meiotic drive.

Without centromeres, cells cannot divide properly and the overall process of mitosis fails. Why are these small chromosomal regions so essential to such a major cellular process? With a few ...

Dicentric chromosomes with well–separated centromeres are functionally monocentric, stabilized by the poorly understood phenomenon of centromere inactivation. We show here that dicentric X ...