Diversity and evolution of centromere repeats in the maize genome
Paul Bilinski, Kevin Distor, Jose Gutierrez-Lopez, Gabriela Mendoza Mendoza, Jinghua Shi, R. Kelly Dawe, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
The paper investigates the evolution of CentC repeats in maize, finding that tandem duplications drive diversity and that domestication reduced CentC abundance while increasing Cent4.
bioRxiv · May 12, 2014Genomics