TOPBP1-Dependent DNA Damage Processing Promotes Centromere Loss in an Inviable Xenopus Hybrid
Hybrid incompatibility is associated with chromosome instability, DNA damage, and embryonic lethality, yet how cells respond to genome instability in hybrids is unclear. In inviable hybrids generated by fertilizing Xenopus tropicalis eggs with Xenopus laevis sperm, CENP-A is lost from paternal chromosomes, leading to elimination of two chromosome arms. Using hybrid Xenopus egg extract reactions,…
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