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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* and Benjamin Audit*

BMC Genomics 2009, 10:335 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-335

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Detection of gene expression changes at chromosomal rearrangement breakpoints in evolution

Adriana Muñoz, David Sankoff BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13(Suppl 3):S6 (21 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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Complexity of genome evolution by segmental rearrangement in Brassica rapa revealed by sequence-level analysis

Martin Trick, Soo-Jin Kwon, Su Choi, Fiona Fraser, Eleni Soumpourou, Nizar Drou, Zhi Wang, Seo Lee, Tae-Jin Yang, Jeong-Hwan Mun, Andrew H Paterson, Christopher D Town, J Chris Pires, Yong Pyo Lim, Beom-Seok Park, Ian Bancroft BMC Genomics 2009, 10:539 (18 November 2009)

Comparative analysis of the polyploid genomes of Brassica rapa and Arabidopsis thaliana reveals many unanticipated collinearity blocks and frequent segmental inversions, shedding new light on genome evolution within the Brassicaceae.

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The where and wherefore of evolutionary breakpoints

David Sankoff Journal of Biology 2009, 8:66 (24 July 2009)

David Sankoff discusses the properties of chromatin in breakpoint regions and their relevance to evolutionary change in the light of two recent papers in BMC Genomics.