Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

The genome-wide multi-layered architecture of chromosome pairing in early Drosophila embryos

  • Jelena Erceg,
  • Jumana AlHaj Abed,
  • Anton Goloborodko,
  • Bryan R. Lajoie,
  • Geoffrey Fudenberg,
  • Nezar Abdennur,
  • Maxim Imakaev,
  • Ruth B. McCole,
  • Son C. Nguyen,
  • Wren Saylor,
  • Eric F. Joyce,
  • T. Niroshini Senaratne,
  • Mohammed A. Hannan,
  • Guy Nir,
  • Job Dekker,
  • Leonid A. Mirny,
  • C.-ting Wu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12211-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Homologs are paired in Drosophila somatic cells from embryogenesis to adulthood. Using a computational approach for haplotype-resolved Hi-C, the authors reveal highly structured homolog pairing in Drosophila embryos during zygotic genome activation and demonstrate its application to mammalian embryos.