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Mutational Biases and GC-Biased Gene Conversion Affect GC Content in the Plastomes of Dendrobium Genus.
International journal of molecular sciences - 2 Nov 2017
Niu Zhitao, Xue Qingyun, Wang Hui, Xie Xuezhu, Zhu Shuying, Liu Wei, Ding Xiaoyu
Abstract excerpt
The variation of GC content is a key genome feature because it is associated with fundamental elements of genome organization. However, the reason for this variation is still an open question. Different kinds of hypotheses have been proposed to explain the variation of GC content during genome evolution. However, these hypotheses have not been explicitly investigated in whole plastome sequences. Dendrobium is one...
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