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SUBMITTER: Topp CN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2813801 | biostudies-literature | 2009
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Topp C N CN Okagaki R J RJ Melo J R JR Kynast R G RG Phillips R L RL Dawe R K RK
Cytogenetic and genome research 20090625 3-4
We report a neocentromere event on maize chromosome 3 that occurred due to chromosome breakage. The neocentromere lies on a fragment of the short arm that lacks the primary centromere DNA elements, CentC and CRM. It is transmitted in the genomic background of oat via a new centromere (and kinetochore), as shown by immunolocalization of the oat CENH3 protein. Despite normal transmission of the maize fragment in most progeny, neocentromeres appear to vary in size within the same tissue, as shown b ...[more]