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Mitotic misbehavior of a Drosophila melanogaster satellite in ring chromosomes: insights into intragenomic conflict among heterochromatic sequences.
Fly - 1 Jan 2014
Ferree Patrick M
Abstract excerpt
In eukaryotes, abnormally circularized chromosomes, known as 'rings,' can be mitotically unstable. Some rings derived from a compound X-Y chromosome induce mitotic abnormalities during the embryonic cleavage divisions and early death in Drosophila melanogaster, but the underlying basis is poorly understood. We recently demonstrated that a large region of 359-bp satellite DNA, which normally resides on the X...
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