2006), there is no clear correspondence between genome size and number of protein-coding genes—another indication that the number of genes in a eukaryotic genome reveals little about organismal ...

The nucleomorph has many features of a eukaryotic genome, such as telomere-like repeats, potential centromeric sequences and a few small introns. A very high gene density, overlapping genes and ...

The international team has already combined six and a half synthetic chromosomes in a functional cell. It is the first time scientists have written a eukaryotic genome from scratch. Yeasts are a ...

A research team 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.

Work in the Katz lab aims to elucidate principles of eukaryotic evolution through phylogenetic reconstruction, community sampling and analyses of genome evolution. The bulk of eukaryotic diversity is ...

"We have long known that a large portion of the eukaryotic genome consists of transposons concentrated around the centromere," says Tsukahara, the first author. "However, what biases their ...

The findings were published in the journal Nature. “We have long known that a large portion of the eukaryotic genome consists of transposons concentrated around the centromere,” says Tsukahara ...

We have long known that a large portion of the eukaryotic genome consists of transposons concentrated around the centromere. However, what biases their distribution and what their role is in the ...

Benno C. Schmidt Chair of Cancer Research; Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Professor, Weill Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University My long-term interest is to ...

Accordingly, defects in chromosome replication are a major driver of the genomic instability observed in cancer cells. To understand the molecular mechanisms by which eukaryotic cells carry out and ...