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Characterization of potentially functional 5S rRNA-encoding genes within ribosomal DNA repeats of the nematode
H Vahidi1, A Purac, J M LeBlanc
1Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
Gene
|December 15, 1991
Abstract:
In the plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne arenaria, isolated rDNA repeats show length heterogeneity, and are unusual in that they contain putative 5S ribosomal RNA pseudogenes [Vahidi et al., J. Mol. Evol. 27 (1988) 222-227]. Potentially functional 5S rRNA-encoding genes can also be identified in various rDNA repeats, which appear to be tandemly organized in the genome.