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Dynamic evolution at pericentromeres.
Genome research - 1 Mar 2006
Hall Anne E, Kettler Gregory C, Preuss Daphne
Abstract excerpt
Pericentromeres are exceptional genomic regions: in animals they contain extensive segmental duplications implicated in gene creation, and in plants they sustain rearrangements and insertions uncommon in euchromatin. To examine the mechanisms and patterns of plant pericentromere evolution, we compared pericentromere sequence from four Brassicaceae species separated by <15 million years (Myr). This flowering plant...
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