{"title":"The chromolinker hypothesis: Are eukaryotic genomes also circular?","authors":"Richard Gordon","doi":"10.1016/j.biosystems.2024.105280","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Over more than the past century, reports that chromosomes in Eukaryotes are linked have been published. Recently this has been confirmed by micromanipulation. The chromolinkers are DNAse sensitive, as has been previously reported. The arguments for and against chromolinkers have been reviewed, and a call for definitive research made, because if chromolinkers do exist, the whole basis for <del>nuclear DNA</del> genetics may require revision.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50730,"journal":{"name":"Biosystems","volume":"244 ","pages":"Article 105280"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Biosystems","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303264724001655","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"BIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Over more than the past century, reports that chromosomes in Eukaryotes are linked have been published. Recently this has been confirmed by micromanipulation. The chromolinkers are DNAse sensitive, as has been previously reported. The arguments for and against chromolinkers have been reviewed, and a call for definitive research made, because if chromolinkers do exist, the whole basis for nuclear DNA genetics may require revision.
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BioSystems encourages experimental, computational, and theoretical articles that link biology, evolutionary thinking, and the information processing sciences. The link areas form a circle that encompasses the fundamental nature of biological information processing, computational modeling of complex biological systems, evolutionary models of computation, the application of biological principles to the design of novel computing systems, and the use of biomolecular materials to synthesize artificial systems that capture essential principles of natural biological information processing.