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Cong Yu

Laboratory of Wildlife Ecology and Behaviour, School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.

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Neonatal personality is associated with sex-specific developmental trajectories in a wild mammal

Cong Yu, S. Ciuti

The paper examines neonatal personality traits in wild fallow deer and finds sex-specific links between early behavioral reactivity and later developmental outcomes.

bioRxiv · Nov 9, 2026 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition

Models for the architecture of the human inner kinetochore CCAN complex on centromeric α-satellite CENP-A nucleosome arrays

Cong Yu, Kyle Muir, Jing Yang, Ziguo Zhang, Stephen H. McLaughlin, David Barford

The paper determines cryo-EM structures of the CCAN complex bound to different DNA sequences to understand its architecture on centromeric α-satellite CENP-A nucleosome arrays.

bioRxiv · Nov 4, 2025 · PreprintMolecular Biology