Functional Allium fistulosum Centromeres Comprise Arrays of a Long Satellite Repeat, Insertions of Retrotransposons and Chloroplast DNA

The centromere is a unique part of the chromosome combining a conserved function with an extreme variability in its DNA sequence. Most of our knowledge about the functional centromere organization is obtained from species with small and medium genome/chromosome sizes while the progress in plants wit...

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Main Authors: Ilya Kirov, Sergey Odintsov, Murad Omarov, Sofya Gvaramiya, Pavel Merkulov, Maxim Dudnikov, Alexey Ermolaev, Katrijn Van Laere, Alexander Soloviev, Ludmila Khrustaleva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2020.562001/full