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One of the major outstanding questions in the recent history of molecular biology concerns the origin and significance of repetitive DNA sequences in eukaryotic genomes. Although higher plant species have not yet received much concentrated attention in this context, an analysis of what data is available shows that plants frequently have much more repetitive DNA than most animals (reviewed in Thompson and Murray, 1979). Therefore it seems logical to view plant genomes as particularly favorable material for studies on the origin and evolution of repeated sequences.
This work was supported in part by grants from the National Science Foundation (PCM 7705656) and the Competitive Grants Office of the Science and Education Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture (5901-0410-8-0009-0). R.E.C. received support from a Ford Foundation predoctoral fellowship.
Publication No. 671 from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Plant Biology.
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Thompson, W.F., Murray, M.G., Cuellar, R.E. (1980). Contrasting Patterns of DNA Sequence Organization in Plants. In: Leaver, C.J. (eds) Genome Organization and Expression in Plants. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 29. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3051-6_1
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