Sequence organization and evolution, in
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Joseph A. Adegoke; Úlfur Árnason; Bengt Widegren
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Article
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1993
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Springer
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English
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A heavy (GC rich) DNA satellite with terminal chromosomal localization is characteristic for all mysticete (whalebone whale) genomes. Sequences of 58 repeats of the satellite were compared in all ten extant mysticete species. In three families comprising eight species, the typical repeat length was