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Repetitive DNA, genome system architecture and genome reorganization
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA. jsha@midway.uchicago.edu
Research in Microbiology
|October 31, 2002
Abstract:
Repetitive DNA elements are major organizational components of the genome involved in replication, in transmission to daughter cells, and controlling expression of genomic coding sequences. Repetitive elements format the genome system architecture characteristic of each taxonomic group. Appreciating the functional significance of repetitive DNA provides new concepts of genome organization and genome reorganization in evolution.