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chromocenter

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chromocenter.
See karyosome.


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Moreover, we deliberately consider only one string here to simplify analysis; nevertheless, it is easy to imagine that the depletion attraction drives the formation of nucleoli and chromocenters (as active rDNA genes or centromeric heterochromatin on different chromosomes aggregate), as well as the pairing of meiotic chromosomes (as homologous transcription complexes aggregate (51)).
Entropy-Driven Genome Organization by Davide Marenduzzo and Cristian Micheletti and Peter R Cook / Biophysical Journal
Other nuclei were coarsely granular with small nucleoli or chromocenters.
Primary Extraneural Myxopapillary Ependymoma of the Broad Ligament by Darren E Whittemore and Robert E Grondahl and Kondi Wong / Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
On the cytological level, during interphase, the chromosomes in animals, such as flies, are all joined together in a common heterochromatic region, referred to as the chromocenter.
Force and genomic change by Lieber, Michael M. / Frontier Perspectives
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