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Identification and diversity of functional centromere satellites in the wild rice species Oryza brachyantha.
Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology - 1 Dec 2013
Yi Chuandeng, Zhang Wenli, Dai Xibin, Li Xing, Gong Zhiyun, Zhou Yong, Liang Guohua, Gu Minghong
Abstract excerpt
The centromere is a key chromosomal component for sister chromatid cohesion and is the site for kinetochore assembly and spindle fiber attachment, allowing each sister chromatid to faithfully segregate to each daughter cell during cell division. It is not clear what types of sequences act as functional centromeres and how centromere sequences are organized in Oryza brachyantha, an FF genome species. In this...
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