A high-quality genome assembly of Silene latifolia was generated by researchers at CNRS/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and ...

At different times during the life cycle of a cell, the DNA that makes up the cell's chromosomes can be tightly compacted into a structure that is visible under a microscope, or it can be more ...

Thus, in her experiments, McClintock observed several fundamental properties of chromosome biology ... the experiments that revealed the actual structure of telomeres. Nature provided the model ...

The epigenetic state of chromatin, gene activity, and chromosomal positions are interrelated. A research team from the IPK Leibniz Institute (IPK) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...

This odd arrangement, the authors found, influences the three-dimensional structure of the entire chromosome. “This is definitely a breakthrough within the field. We’ve been generating assemblies for ...

Some mutations can affect the structure of one or more chromosomes - these are chromosome structure mutations.