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Telomere Biology—Insights into an Intriguing Phenomenon

Bacteria and viruses possess circular DNA, whereas eukaryotes with typically very large DNA molecules have had to evolve into linear chromosomes to circumvent the problem of supercoiling circular DNA of that size. Consequently, such organisms possess telomeres to cap chromosome ends. Telomeres are e...

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Autores principales: Venkatesan, Shriram, Khaw, Aik Kia, Hande, Manoor Prakash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5492019/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28629193
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells6020015