Interstitial Telomeric Motifs in Squamate Reptiles: When the Exceptions Outnumber the Rule.

Telomeres are nucleoprotein complexes protecting the physical ends of linear eukaryotic chromosomes and therefore helping to ensure their stability and integrity. Additionally, telomeric sequences can be localized in non-terminal regions of chromosomes, forming so-called interstitial telomeric seque...

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Main Authors: Michail Rovatsos, Lukáš Kratochvíl, Marie Altmanová, Martina Johnson Pokorná
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4529230?pdf=render