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Chromosomal instability in Afrotheria: fragile sites, evolutionary breakpoints and phylogenetic inference from genome sequence assemblies

Aurora Ruiz-Herrera and Terence J Robinson*

BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:199 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-199

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Chromosome painting in three-toed sloths: a cytogenetic signature and ancestral karyotype for Xenarthra

Nathalia Fernandes de Azevedo, Marta Svartman, Andrea Manchester, Nadia de Moraes-Barros, Roscoe Stanyon, Angela M Vianna-Morgante BMC Evolutionary Biology 2012, 12:36 (19 March 2012)

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Comparative genomics reveals birth and death of fragile regions in mammalian evolution

Max A Alekseyev, Pavel A Pevzner Genome Biology 2010, 11:R117 (30 November 2010)

A new model explains the frequencies of breakpoints at genomic rearrangement hotspots by demonstrating that fragile sites undergo birth and death.

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Analysis of fine-scale mammalian evolutionary breakpoints provides new insight into their relation to genome organisation

Claire Lemaitre, Lamia Zaghloul, Marie-France Sagot, Christian Gautier, Alain Arneodo, Eric Tannier, Benjamin Audit BMC Genomics 2009, 10:335 (24 July 2009)

Mammalian evolutionary breakpoints occur frequently in GC-rich intergenic regions characteristic of high-transcriptional activity and replication initiation, suggesting that their distribution is linked to natural selection and a mutational bias due to local open chromatin state.

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Gene synteny comparisons between different vertebrates provide new insights into breakage and fusion events during mammalian karyotype evolution

Claus Kemkemer, Matthias Kohn, David N Cooper, Lutz Froenicke, Josef Högel, Horst Hameister, Hildegard Kehrer-Sawatzki BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:84 (24 April 2009)

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