Fig. 7.
—(A) The RVD sequence of TalCM2/TalCM4 is identical to TalCM1/TalCM5 with repeats 4 (HG) and 12 (HD) deleted. Small superscript letters at RVDs indicate unique repeat sequences. Aberrant, short repeats highlighted in green. (B) The DNA sequence of TalCM1/TalCM5 with repeats 4 and 12 deleted (red lines) is completely identical to that of TalCM2/TalCM4. Powder-blue vertical lines indicate position of RVDs in repeats. (C) Model of the deletion of a repeat during replication. In single-stranded DNA, repeat 4 loops out and repeat 5 binds to the already synthesized fragment on the lagging strand.
