Publication Date:
1991-01-18
Description:
Concerted evolution is the production and maintenance of homogeneity within repeated families of DNA. Two mechanisms--unequal crossing over and biased gene conversion--have been the principal explanations of concerted evolution. Concerted evolution of ribosomal DNA (rDNA) arrays is thought to be largely the result of unequal crossing over. However, concerted evolution of rDNA in parthenogenetic lizards of hybrid origin is strongly biased toward one of two parental sequences, which is consistent with biased gene conversion as the operative mechanism. The apparent gene conversions are independent of initial genome dosage and result in homogenization of rDNA arrays across all nucleolar organizer regions.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hillis, D M -- Moritz, C -- Porter, C A -- Baker, R J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1991 Jan 18;251(4991):308-10.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Zoology, University of Texas, Austin 78712.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1987647" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Biological Evolution
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Blotting, Southern
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DNA, Ribosomal/*genetics
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Gene Conversion
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Karyotyping
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Lizards
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Nucleic Acid Hybridization
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Parthenogenesis
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Restriction Mapping
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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