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. 1979 Jun 11;6(7):2423–2434. doi: 10.1093/nar/6.7.2423

Conservation of sequences in related genomes of Apodemus: constraints on the maintenance of satellite DNA sequences.

S D Brown, G A Dover
PMCID: PMC327863  PMID: 461194

Abstract

Satellites from two related species of the Apodemus genus, A. sylvaticus and A. flavicollis, have been analysed with restriction enzymes Taq I, Alu I and Hind III. The restriction maps are closely conserved between species and show a novel feature of two differing internal periodicities within a 375 base pair repeating unit detected by two different restriction enzymes. This places constraints on the introduction of the observed restriction sites according to current models such as unequal crossing-over. The implications of such a conserved sequence and its presence in other species are discussed.

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