Article
Centromere satellites from Arabidopsis populations: maintenance of conserved and variable domains.
Genome research - 1 Feb 2003
Hall Sarah E, Kettler Gregory, Preuss Daphne
Abstract excerpt
The rapid evolution of centromere sequences between species has led to a debate over whether centromere activity is sequence-dependent. The Arabidopsis thaliana centromere regions contain approximately 20,000 copies of a 178-bp satellite repeat. Here, we analyzed satellites from 41 Arabidopsis ecotypes, providing the first broad population survey of satellite variation within a species. We found highly conserved...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
