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Mutation and recombination in cattle satellite DNA: a feedback model for the evolution of satellite DNA repeats.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Apr 2001
Nijman I J, Lenstra J A
Abstract excerpt
The cattle genome contains several distinct centromeric satellites with interrelated evolutionary histories. We compared these satellites in Bovini species that diverged 0.2 to about 5 Myr ago. Quantification of hybridization signals by phosphor imaging revealed a large variation in the relative amounts of the major satellites. In the genome of water buffalo this has led to the complete deletion of satellite III....
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