Takashi Akera

The paper shows that the CENP-A chaperone complex forms shell-like structures around centromeres in interphase, essential for centromere architecture and genome stability.

The paper identifies a vertebrate toxin-antidote system that biases transmission through the female germline by sabotaging mouse embryogenesis.

The paper identifies a meiosis-specific pericentromere specification in Peromyscus mouse oocytes that separates sister-chromatid cohesion from the kinetochore.

The paper identifies cohesin protection errors in hybrid mouse oocytes as a cause of female sterility, linking it to speciation.

The paper shows that the selfish element R2d2 in mice uses a hybrid mechanism in female meiosis to distort transmission by causing aneuploidy in the egg, leading to increased transmission of R2d2.