Meiosis: How Gambling Chromosomes Beat the Rules

Courtney M. Schroeder; Harmit S. Malik

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.10.056

Meiosis: How Gambling Chromosomes Beat the Rules

Courtney M. Schroeder, Harmit S. Malik

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Abstract

Selfish centromeres exploit asymmetric female meiosis to drive non-Mendelian segregation in their favor. Using inherent differences in drive propensity between mouse chromosomes, a new study reveals how proteins that modify chromatin states and microtubule stability enable this selfish behavior.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	R1247-R1248
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	29
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.10.056
State	Published - Dec 2 2019
Externally published	Yes

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General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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