Article
Patterns and evolution of nucleotide landscapes in seed plants.
The Plant cell - 1 Apr 2012
Serres-Giardi Laurana, Belkhir Khalid, David Jacques, Glémin Sylvain
Abstract excerpt
Nucleotide landscapes, which are the way base composition is distributed along a genome, strongly vary among species. The underlying causes of these variations have been much debated. Though mutational bias and selection were initially invoked, GC-biased gene conversion (gBGC), a recombination-associated process favoring the G and C over A and T bases, is increasingly recognized as a major factor. As opposed to...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
