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Rapid evolution of yeast centromeres in the absence of drive.

Genetics - 1 Apr 2008

Bensasson Douda, Zarowiecki Magdalena, Burt Austin, Koufopanou Vassiliki

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To find the most rapidly evolving regions in the yeast genome we compared most of chromosome III from three closely related lineages of the wild yeast Saccharomyces paradoxus. Unexpectedly, the centromere appears to be the fastest-evolving part of the chromosome, evolving even faster than DNA sequences unlikely to be under selective constraint (i.e., synonymous sites after correcting for codon usage bias and...

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PMID: 18430941
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.083980
PMCID: PMC2323805

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