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SUBMITTER: Rhind N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3131103 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20110421 6032
The fission yeast clade--comprising Schizosaccharomyces pombe, S. octosporus, S. cryophilus, and S. japonicus--occupies the basal branch of Ascomycete fungi and is an important model of eukaryote biology. A comparative annotation of these genomes identified a near extinction of transposons and the associated innovation of transposon-free centromeres. Expression analysis established that meiotic genes are subject to antisense transcription during vegetative growth, which suggests a mechanism for ...[more]