Analysis of fine-scale mammalian evolutionary breakpoints provides new insight into their relation to genome organisation

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The Intergenic Breakage Model, which is the current model of structural genome evolution, considers that evolutionary rearrangement breakages happen with a uniform propensity along the genome but are selected against in genes, their...

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Main Authors: Zaghloul Lamia, Lemaitre Claire, Sagot Marie-France, Gautier Christian, Arneodo Alain, Tannier Eric, Audit Benjamin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-07-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/10/335