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GC content of plant genes is linked to past gene duplications.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2000
Bowers John E, Tang Haibao, Burke John M, Paterson Andrew H
Abstract excerpt
The frequency of G and C nucleotides in genomes varies from species to species, and sometimes even between different genes in the same genome. The monocot grasses have a bimodal distribution of genic GC content absent in dicots. We categorized plant genes from 5 dicots and 4 monocot grasses by synteny to related species and determined that syntenic genes have significantly higher GC content than non-syntenic...
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