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Lost in translation: Population genomics and long-read sequencing reveals relaxation of concerted evolution of the ribosomal DNA cistron.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Jul 2020
Tremble Keaton, Suz Laura M, Dentinger Bryn T M
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Concerted evolution of the ribosomal DNA array has been studied in numerous eukaryotic taxa, yet is still poorly understood. rDNA genes are repeated dozens to hundreds of times in the eukaryotic genome (Eickbush and Eickbush, 2007) and it is believed that these arrays are homogenized through concerted evolution (Zimmer et al., 1980; Dover, 1993) preventing the accumulation of intragenomic, and intraspecific,...
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