Microsatellites that violate Chargaff's second parity rule have base order-dependent asymmetries in the folding energies of complementary DNA strands and may not drive speciation

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 254, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 168-177

  Zhang, Chiyu ^a   Xu, Shungao ^a   Wei, Ji Fu ^b   Forsdyke, Donald R ^c  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chi sequences; Crick's unpairing postulate; Recombination; Short tandem repeats; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ASYMMETRY; DNA; KINETICS; RECOMBINATION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DECOMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GERM LINE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MEIOSIS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TELOMERE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 49049117090     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.05.013     Document Type: Article

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