Genetic diversity and evolution of rice centromeres
Lingjuan Xie, Yujie Huang, Wei Huang, Lianguang Shang, Yanqing Sun, Quanyu Chen, Shuangtian Bi, Mingyu Suo, Shiyu Zhang, Chentao Yang, Xiaoming Zheng, Weiwei Jin, Qian Qian, Longjiang Fan, Dongya Wu
This study analyzes rice centromeres to understand their genetic diversity and evolution, finding that structural variations and retrotransposon insertions drive centromere innovation.
Nature Genetics · Oct 21, 2025Peer-reviewedGenetics