| Literature DB >> 29727667 |
Courtney M Schroeder1, Harmit S Malik2.
Abstract
The discovery of neocentromere activity by maize knobs heralded the field of meiotic drive, in which selfish genetic elements exploit meiotic asymmetry to enhance their propagation. A new study reveals the long-awaited basis of this meiotic drive: cytoskeletal motors enable neocentromeric knobs to achieve favorable meiotic positioning and preferential inheritance.Entities:
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Year: 2018 PMID： 29727667 DOI： 10.1016/j.cell.2018.04.021
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell ISSN： 0092-8674 Impact factor: 41.582