Research
Evolutionary-new centromeres preferentially emerge within gene deserts
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* Corresponding author: Mariano Rocchi rocchi@biologia.uniba.it
1 Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Bari, Via Amendola 165/A, Bari 70126, Italy
2 Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle, 1705 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
3 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1705 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Genome Biology 2008, 9:R173 doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-12-r173
Published: 16 December 2008Additional files
Additional data file 1:
Evolutionary history of chromosome 8 in primates.
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Additional data file 2:
Examples of FISH experiments.
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Additional data file 3:
Human probes used to track the evolutionary history of chromosome 8.
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Species-specific BAC clones used in FISH experiments to detect pericentromeric segmental duplications.
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