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    Recombination between heterologous human acrocentric chromosomes

    The short arms of the human acrocentric chromosomes 13, 14, 15, 21 and 22 (SAACs) share large homologous regions, including ribosomal DNA repeats and extended segmental duplications1,2. Although the resolution of...

    Andrea Guarracino, Silvia Buonaiuto, Leonardo Gomes de Lima, Tamara Potapova in Nature (2023)

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    High-throughput analysis of the satellitome revealed enormous diversity of satellite DNAs in the neo-Y chromosome of the cricket Eneoptera surinamensis

    Satellite DNAs (satDNAs) constitute large portion of eukaryote genomes, comprising non-protein-coding sequences tandemly repeated. They are mostly found in heterochromatic regions of chromosomes such as around...

    Octavio Manuel Palacios-Gimenez, Guilherme Borges Dias in Scientific Reports (2017)