Developing elite fruit cultivars typically requires long breeding cycles, especially in perennial woody species. This study uncovers how sexual reproduction of a fertile triploid loquat generates a ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The 23 rd chromosome base pair contains what are known as our sex chromosomes. For most females, this ...

Advancements in genome sequencing have challenged the long-standing belief that the position of the centromere in the chromosome is fixed. Researchers from Okayama University, Japan, have analyzed ...

The study of cytogenetics in Hymenoptera reveals a remarkable diversity in chromosomal number, structure and organisation across ants, bees and wasps. Research in this field has illuminated how ...

An appraisal. Basic tenets of cytogenetics -- The architecture of the chromosome. Viral chromosomes ; The chromosomes of protocells ; Episomes ; The chromosomes of eucells ; Euchromatin and ...

Changes in chromosome numbers may strongly affect reproductive barriers, because individuals heterozygous for distinct karyotypes are typically expected to be at least partially sterile or to show ...

Cancer researchers have long treated genetic chaos and epigenetic rewiring as separate engines of disease, two parallel ...