Unusual DNA Structures Associated With Germline Genetic Activity in Caenorhabditis elegans
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Unusual DNA structures associated with germline genetic activity in Caenorhabditis elegans.
We describe a surprising long-range periodicity that underlies a substantial fraction of C. elegans genomic sequence. Extended segments (up to several hundred nucleotides) of the C. elegans genome show a strong bias toward occurrence of AA/TT dinucleotides along one face of the helix while little or no such constraint is evident on the opposite helical face. Segments with this characteristic pe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1943-2631
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.057364