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Unique nucleotide polymorphism of ankyrin gene cluster in Arabidopsis.
Journal of genetics - 1 Apr 2007
Du Jianchang, Wang Xingna, Zhang Mingsheng, Tian Dacheng, Yang Yong-Hua
Abstract excerpt
The ankyrin (ANK) gene cluster is a part of a multigene family encoding ANK transmembrane proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana, and plays an important role in protein-protein interactions and in signal pathways. In contrast to other regions of a genome, the ANK gene cluster exhibits an extremely high level of DNA polymorphism in an approximately 5-kb region, without apparent decay. Phylogenetic analysis detects two...
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