Awesome new work from @labschneeberger.bsky.social (with a small contribution from the Weigel lab). Experimentally observed mutational patterns in centromeres underpin a model that recapitulates intra-specific centromere divergence!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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🚨 My first PhD preprint is out on bioRxiv!
We show how tiny mutations—point mutations and kb-level indels—can shape the massive structure of Arabidopsis centromeres.
📄 Read it here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🧵 A short thread 👇