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. 1989 Dec 11;17(23):9527–9530. doi: 10.1093/nar/17.23.9527

The Caenorhabditis elegans genome contains monomorphic minisatellites and simple sequences.

A G Uitterlinden 1, P E Slagboom 1, T E Johnson 1, J Vijg 1
PMCID: PMC335194  PMID: 2602134

Abstract

Many species have been shown to contain tandemly repeated short sequence DNA known as minisatellites and simple sequence motifs. Due to allelic variation in the copy number of the repeat unit these loci are usually highly polymorphic. Here we demonstrate the presence of sequences in the genome of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans which are homologous to two sets of short sequence DNA. However, when two independent strains were compared no polymorphism for these sequences could be detected.

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