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. 1976 Oct;3(10):2451–2457. doi: 10.1093/nar/3.10.2451

Conformations of satellite DNAs.

E Selsing, A G Leslie, S Arnott, J G Gall, D M Skinner, E M Southern, J H Spencer, K Harbers
PMCID: PMC343104  PMID: 995639

Abstract

X-ray fiber diffraction studies of satellite DNAs from Gecarcinus lateralis, Drosophila virilis and Mus musculus, all of which have highly repetitious base sequences but with different degrees of sequence complexity, reveal only classical polynucleotide duplex structures in contrast to some highly repetitious synthetic DNAs.

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