Assessing the Role of Tandem Repeats in Shaping the Genomic Architecture of Great Apes
Farré M, Bosch M, López-Giráldez F, Ponsà M, Ruiz-Herrera A. Assessing the Role of Tandem Repeats in Shaping the Genomic Architecture of Great Apes. PLOS ONE 2011, 6: e27239. PMID: 22076140, PMCID: PMC3208591, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027239.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEvolutionary breakpoint regionsTandem repeatsEvolutionary regionBreakpoint regionSpecific tandem repeatMore base pairsGreat apesGenome architectureMammalian genomesGenome organizationSynteny blocksChromatin conformationEvolutionary biologistsGenomic architectureAncestral reconstructionGenome instabilityMacaque genomeChromosomal reorganizationTransposable elementsGenomic regionsHuman genomeGenomic areasAlu elementsGenomeBase pairs