Revealing a key mechanism of rapid centromere evolution

PHYSorg
Jan 1, 2025, 11:00 am123 pts
A joint research group team led by Sayuri Tsukahara and Tetsuji Kakutani of the University of Tokyo has clarified a mechanism of how retrotransposons, genetic elements that can "jump around" chromosomes and are known drivers of evolution, preferentially insert in the centromere. The findings were published in…

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