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. 1974 Nov;1(11):1411–1419. doi: 10.1093/nar/1.11.1411

Repeated DNA sequences in fungi

SK Dutta 1
PMCID: PMC343421  PMID: 10793700

Abstract

Several fungal species, representatives of all broad groups like basidiomycetes, ascomycetes and phycomycetes, were examined for the nature of repeated DNA sequences by DNA:DNA reassociation studies using hydroxyapatite chromatography. All of the fungal species tested contained 10-20% repeated DNA sequences. There are approximately 100-110 copies of repeated DNA sequences of approximately 4 × 107 daltons piece size of each. Repeated DNA sequence homoduplexes showed on average 5°C difference of Te50 (temperature at which 50% duplexes dissociate) values from the corresponding homoduplexes of unfractionated whole DNA. It is suggested that a part of repetitive sequences in fungi constitutes mitochondrial DNA and a part of it constitutes nuclear DNA.

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