The main role of the telomere bouquet was thought to be the promotion of recombination, but Tomita and Cooper now report in Cell that, in fission yeast, the telomere bouquet has a crucial role in ...

The findings advance our understanding of how genes are regulated in fission yeast but could also ... and Michael Stadler from the Computational Biology platform to analyze it.

Fission yeast and budding yeast are free-living haploid cells that are easily grown in the laboratory. They have different cell shapes and patterns of division. Left, fission yeast; right, budding ...