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Evolution of long centromeres in fire ants

BACKGROUND: Centromeres are essential for accurate chromosome segregation, yet sequence conservation is low even among closely related species. Centromere drive predicts rapid turnover because some centromeric sequences may compete better than others during female meiosis. In addition to sequence co...

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Autores principales: Huang, Yu-Ching, Lee, Chih-Chi, Kao, Chia-Yi, Chang, Ni-Chen, Lin, Chung-Chi, Shoemaker, DeWayne, Wang, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5024525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27628313
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0760-7