Centromere Cluster (VIDEO)

Stowers Institute for Medical Research

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The 3-D animation shows a meiotic nucleus from Drosophila. Centromeres (shown in red) cluster in one area while chromosome ends (shown in green) are spread out. Paired chromosomes are shown in blue

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With permission from <I>Current Biology</I>, Satomi et al.

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