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SUBMITTER: Tek AL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1451160 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tek Ahmet L AL Song Junqi J Macas Jiri J Jiang Jiming J
Genetics 20050523 3
Highly repetitive satellite DNA sequences are main components of heterochromatin in higher eukaryotic genomes. It is well known that satellite repeats can expand and contract dramatically, which may result in significant genome size variation among genetically related species. The origin of satellite repeats, however, is elusive. Here we report a satellite repeat, Sobo, from a diploid potato species, Solanum bulbocastanum. The Sobo repeat is mapped to a single location in the pericentromeric reg ...[more]