Everything in Its Place

Neocentromeres: a place for everything and everything in its place.

Centromeres are essential for chromosome inheritance and genome stability. Centromeric proteins, including the centromeric histone centromere protein A (CENP-A), define the site of centromeric chromatin and kinetochore assembly. In many organisms, centromeres are located in or near regions of repetitive DNA. However, some atypical centromeres spontaneously form on unique sequences. These neocen...

Everything in its right place? Learning a user’s view of a music collection

Keeping one’s personal music collections well organized can be a very tedious task. Fortunately, today, many popular music players (such as AmaroK or iTunes) have an integrated library function that can automatically rename and tag music files and sort them into subdirectories. However, their common approach to stick with some hierarchy of genre, artist name, and album title barely represents t...

Everything in its place. Conservation of gene order among distantly related plant species.

Olfactory processing: A time and place for everything

The behavioral effects of pharmacologically desynchronizing neuronal firing in the brain of the honeybee provide new evidence that the oscillatory synchronization of neuronal activity plays an important role in fine olfactory discrimination.

Putting Hierarchy in Its Place