An atlas of eukaryotic centromere architecture reveals recurrent evolutionary dynamics
Piotr Włodzimierz, Estela Pérez-Román, Jacob Gonzalez Isa, Michael Hong, Meng Zhang, Ludmila Oliveira, Katharine M. Jenike, Robin Burns, Pío Sierra, Matthias Heuberger, Chenxi Zhou, Sagarika Koppera, Mia Becker, Nicola Gorringe, Petr Novak, , Ian R. Henderson
Across 325 Darwin Tree of Life genomes, satellite-array and transposon-cluster centromeres are phylogenetically scattered, fitting a model of repeated interconversion; satellites share higher-order repeat structure but not sequence.
bioRxiv · Sep 23, 2026 · PreprintGenomics✦ In-depth digest