Holocentromeres in Rhynchospora are associated with genome-wide centromere-specific repeat arrays interspersed among euchromatin

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 44, 2015, Pages 13633-13638

  Marques, André ^a,b   Ribeiro, Tiago ^a,b   Neumann, Pavel ^c   Macas, Jiří ^c   Novák, Petr ^c   Schubert, Veit ^b   Pellino, Marco ^b   Fuchs, Jörg ^b   Ma, Wei ^b   Kuhlmann, Markus ^b   Brandt, Ronny ^b   Vanzela, André L L ^d   Beseda, Tomáš ^e   Šimková, Hana ^e   Pedrosa Harand, Andrea ^a   Houben, Andreas ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

^e INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Centromere; Chromosome; Evolution; Holokinetic; Satellite DNA

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; INTEGRASE; PROTEINASE; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; EUCHROMATIN; SATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CYPERACEAE; EUCHROMATIN; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME SIZE; HISTONE METHYLATION; INTERPHASE; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GENOME; POLLEN MOTHER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RETROPOSON; RHYNCHOSPORA PUBERA; SISTER CHROMATID; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSPOSON; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

CENTROMERE; CYPERACEAE; DNA, SATELLITE; EUCHROMATIN; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 84946601393     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1512255112     Document Type: Article

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