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Genome comparisons reveal a dominant mechanism of chromosome number reduction in grasses and accelerated genome evolution in Triticeae.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Sept 2009
Luo M C, Deal K R, Akhunov E D, Akhunova A R, Anderson O D, Anderson J A, Blake N, Clegg M T, Coleman-Derr D, Conley E J, Crossman C C, Dubcovsky J, Gill B S, Gu Y Q, Hadam J, Heo H Y, Huo N, Lazo G, Ma Y, Matthews D E, McGuire P E, Morrell P L, Qualset C O, Renfro J, Tabanao D, Talbert L E, Tian C, Toleno D M, Warburton M L, You F M, Zhang W, Dvorak J
Abstract excerpt
Single-nucleotide polymorphism was used in the construction of an expressed sequence tag map of Aegilops tauschii, the diploid source of the wheat D genome. Comparisons of the map with the rice and sorghum genome sequences revealed 50 inversions and translocations; 2, 8, and 40 were assigned respectively to the rice, sorghum, and Ae. tauschii lineages, showing greatly accelerated genome evolution in the large...
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