Core-genome scaffold comparison reveals the prevalence that inversion events are associated with pairs of inverted repeats

Abstract Background Genome rearrangement describes gross changes of chromosomal regions, plays an important role in evolutionary biology and has profound impacts on phenotype in organisms ranging from microbes to humans. With more and more complete genomes accomplished, lots of genomic comparisons h...

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Main Authors: Dan Wang, Shuaicheng Li, Fei Guo, Kang Ning, Lusheng Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-03-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-017-3655-0