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Next generation sequencing analysis reveals a relationship between rDNA unit diversity and locus number in Nicotiana diploids.
BMC genomics - 23 Dec 2012
Matyášek Roman, Renny-Byfield Simon, Fulneček Jaroslav, Macas Jiří, Grandbastien Marie-Angele, Nichols Richard, Leitch Andrew, Kovařík Aleš
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BACKGROUND: Tandemly arranged nuclear ribosomal DNA (rDNA), encoding 18S, 5.8S and 26S ribosomal RNA (rRNA), exhibit concerted evolution, a pattern thought to result from the homogenisation of rDNA arrays. However rDNA homogeneity at the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) level has not been detailed in organisms with more than a few hundred copies of the rDNA unit. Here we study rDNA complexity in species with...
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