Research on “a tool to induce large-scale genome restructuring, and produce diverse traits in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Arabidopsis thaliana” by Nobuhiko Muramoto, Hidenori Tanaka et al., which was carried out in collaboration with The University of Tokyo, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, and Toyota Motor Corporation was published online in Nature Communications.

Title:Phenotypic diversification by enhanced genome restructuring after induction of multiple DNA double strand breaks
Authors:Nobuhiko Muramoto1, Arisa Oda2, 3, Hidenori Tanaka1, Takahiro Nakamura2, Kazuto Kugou2, Kazuki Suda2, Aki Kobayashi2, Shiori Yoneda2, Akinori Ikeuchi1, Hiroki Sugimoto1, Satoshi Kondo4, Chikara Ohto4, Takehiko Shibata5, Norihiro Mitsukawa1, and Kunihiro Ohta2,3
1 Toyota Central R&D Lab., Inc., 2 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3 Universal Biology Institute, The University of Tokyo, 4 Toyota Motor Corporation, 5 RIKEN Advanced Science Institute
Journal Name: Nature Communications
Published online: 18 May 2018
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04256-y