Centromere repositioning in cucurbit species: Implication of the genomic impact from centromere activation and inactivation
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...The usefulness of these cucumber microsatellite markers has already been demonstrated in several recent linkage mapping, diversity, as well as phylogenetic studies [39-42]....
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...…in mammalian species (e.g., Ferreri et al., 2005; Ventura et al., 2007), but only a few examples of centromere inactivation (and reactivation; F. Han et al., 2009) in plants, including dicentric chromosomes of Trititiceae (Sears and Camara, 1952; Luo et al., 2009), maize (Zea mays) B…...
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...…inactivation (and reactivation; F. Han et al., 2009) in plants, including dicentric chromosomes of Trititiceae (Sears and Camara, 1952; Luo et al., 2009), maize (Zea mays) B chromosomes (F. Han et al., 2006, 2009), and potentially also chromosomes of two cucurbit species (Y. Han et al., 2009)....
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...Similarly, centromere inactivation accompanied by the loss of heterochromatin has been recently envisaged for cucumber (Cucumis sativus) chromosome 6 (Y. Han et al., 2009)....
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...For example, the genetic colinearity between potato and tomato, which diverged 12 million years (27), was well documented by comparative genetic linkage mapping (28, 29)....
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...Potato and tomato chromosomes differ by several large chromosomal inversions (29, 30)....
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...For example, the genetic colinearity between potato and tomato, which diverged 12 million years (27), was well documented by comparative genetic linkage mapping (28, 29)....
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...Centromere function is not determined by its underlying DNA sequence, but by epigenetic mechanisms (1)....
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