Chromosome-Centric View of Genome Organization and Evolution

Maria Sharakhova; Vladimir Trifonov

doi:10.3390/genes12081237

Chromosome-Centric View of Genome Organization and Evolution

Genes (Basel). 2021 Aug 12;12(8):1237. doi: 10.3390/genes12081237.

Authors

Maria Sharakhova¹, Vladimir Trifonov²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Entomology and Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
² Department of Genome Diversity and Evolution, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia.

Abstract

Genetic material in all cellular organisms is packed into chromosomes, which represent essential units of inheritance, recombination, and evolution [...].

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Animals
Chromosomes*
Evolution, Molecular*
Genome*