The Organization and Rate of Evolution of Wheat Genomes Are Correlated With Recombination Rates Along Chromosome Arms.

Authors :: Akhunov, Eduard D.
Goodyear, Andrew W.
Gill, Bikram S.
Gustafson, J. Perry
Lazo, Gerard
Shiaoman Chao
Anderson, Olin D.
Linkiewicz, Anna M.
Dubcovsky, Jorge
La Rota, Maurico
Sorrells, Mark E.
Deshui Zhang
Nguyen, Henry T.
Kalavacharla, Venugopal
Hossain, Khawaja
Kianian, Shahryar F.
Junhua Peng
Lapitan, Nora L.V.
Gonzalez-Hernandez, Jose L.
Source :: Genome Research. May2003, Vol. 13 Issue 5, p753. 11p. 1 Chart, 8 Graphs.
Publication Year :: 2003
Abstract: Assesses the organizational and evolutionary aspects of wheat genomes. Increase of relative gene density with distance of a bin from the centromere; Representation of two or more duplicated loci; Significant role of recombination in the evolution of wheat genome structure.

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