How do new centromeres evolve while staying compatible with the division machinery?

Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.

👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1

Curious about how this story came to be (we never planned to study centromeres!)? Here’s a glimpse behind the scenes of how a naive method to count chromosomes unlocked the rules behind centromere evolution.

P.S. There are cartoons!

👉 tinyurl.com/4rz4ve6u

Just uploaded our new preprint to @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social

Multinucleate life really is everywhere...from deep sea forams to slime molds, intracellular parasites, and beyond. 🚀

We explore how scaling, ecology, & evolution intersect when many nuclei share a single cytoplasm.
doi.org/10.32942/X2M...

Want to acquire #ExM images like this and help us understand the true extent of cytoskeletal diversity across the tree of life? This position might be for you!

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

With @dudinlab.bsky.social
@embl.org @biology-unige.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social