Free-living human cells reconfigure their chromosomes in the evolution back to uni-cellularity
Jin Xu, Xinxin Peng, Yuxin Chen, Yuezheng Zhang, Qin Ma, Liang Liang, Ava C. Carter, Xuemei Lu, Chung‐I Wu
The paper studies chromosomal evolution in cancer cell lines, finding that cells lose sex chromosomes and gain autosomes, leading to a 2:3 X:A ratio that may enhance fitness.
eLife · Dec 15, 2017Peer-reviewedGenomics