Transposons play an important role in the evolution and diversification of centromeres among closely related species

Centromeres are important chromosomal regions necessary for eukaryotic cell segregation and replication. Due to high amounts of tandem repeats and transposons, centromeres have been difficult to sequence in most multicellular organisms, thus their sequence structure and evolution are poorly understo...

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Main Authors: Scott eJackson, Dongying eGao, Ning eJiang, Rod A Wing, Jiming eJiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2015.00216/full