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Recombination, rearrangement, reshuffling, and divergence in a centromeric region of rice.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 10 Jan 2006
Ma Jianxin, Bennetzen Jeffrey L
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Centromeres have many unusual biological properties, including kinetochore attachment and severe repression of local meiotic recombination. These properties are partly an outcome, partly a cause, of unusual DNA structure in the centromeric region. Although several plant and animal genomes have been sequenced, most centromere sequences have not been completed or analyzed in depth. To shed light on the unique...
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