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Why Chromosome Palindromes?

We look at sex-limited chromosome (Y or W) evolution with particular emphasis on the importance of palindromes. Y chromosome palindromes consist of inverted duplicates that allow for local recombination in an otherwise nonrecombining chromosome. Since palindromes enable intrachromosomal gene convers...

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Autores principales: Betrán, Esther, Demuth, Jeffery P., Williford, Anna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3403216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22844637
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/207958