Reposted by Xiao Dong
Thrilled to share our new @nature.com paper from Xiao Dong on the mutational dynamics of centromeres in Arabidopsis thaliana! 🌱
A quick thread on what we found...
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The mutational dynamics of the Arabidopsis centromeres - Nature
Centromeres in Arabidopsis thaliana evolve through frequent insertions and deletions of repeat units and increased rates of point mutations driven by homology-directed repair, a mutation spectrum that...