Summary Maize abnormal chromosome 10 (Ab10) encodes a classic example of true
meiotic drive that converts heterochromatic regions called knobs into motile neocentromeres …

A maize chromosome variant called abnormal chromosome 10 (Ab10) converts knobs on
chromosome arms into neocentromeres, causing their preferential segregation to egg cells …

The maize abnormal chromosome 10 (Ab10) haplotype encodes a meiotic drive system that
converts heterochromatic knobs into centromere-like bodies that are preferentially …

Examples of meiotic drive, the non-Mendelian segregation of a specific genomic region,
have been identified in several eukaryotic species. Maize contains the abnormal …

The Abnormal chromosome 10 (Ab10) in maize causes normally-quiescent blocks of
heterochromatin called knobs to function as meiotic centromeres. Under these …

Neocentromere activity is a classic example of nonkinetochore chromosome movement. In
maize, neocentromeres are induced by a gene or genes on Abnormal chromosome 10 …

Tandem repeat arrays often are found in interstitial (ie, normally gene-rich) regions on
chromosomes. In maize, genes on abnormal chromosome 10 induce the tandem repeats …

Meiotic drive is the subversion of meiosis so that particular genes are preferentially
transmitted to the progeny. Meiotic drive generally causes the preferential segregation of …

The meiotic drive system on maize abnormal chromosome 10 (Ab10) is contained within a
terminal domain of chromatin that extends the long arm of Ab10 to∼ 1.3 times the size of …

Plant neocentromeres are large heterochromatic domains that associate with microtubules
and move rapidly poleward during meiotic cell division. In maize, neocentromeres are part of …