Credit: Malik Lab, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Umbrea (green) colocalizes with centromeric histone Cid (red) in Drosophilia melanogaster larval imaginal disc cells (DNA in blue). Umbrea gained essential centromere function within 15 million years of birth.
Credit: Malik Lab, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Umbrea (green) colocalizes with centromeric histone Cid (red) in Drosophilia melanogaster spermatocytes (DNA in blue). Umbrea gained essential centromere function within 15 million years of birth.
Harmit Malik, Ph.D., is a member of the Basic Sciences Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist.