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Evolutionary Mechanisms Involved in the Formation of Tandem Repetitive Non-Coding DNA

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Genes that code for protein or RNA represent only a fraction of the entire genome. In most higher organisms, including plants and animals, the genes comprise less than 50% of the DNA pr cell [1]. The non-coding fraction of the genome consists of unique non-repetitive spacer sequences between genes and various types of repetitive DNA. The repetitive sequences can be interspersed (present in multiple copies spread throughout the genome), or present as tandem repeats (continous arrays of the repeat unit).

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Jakobsen, K.S., Stacy, J.E., Refseth, U.H., Thoresen, M. (1996). Evolutionary Mechanisms Involved in the Formation of Tandem Repetitive Non-Coding DNA. In: Riste, T., Sherrington, D. (eds) Physics of Biomaterials: Fluctuations, Selfassembly and Evolution. NATO ASI Series, vol 322. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1722-4_11

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