Avtor/Urednik		Hancock, John M.; Dover, Gabriel A.
Naslov		'Compensatory slippage' in the evolution of ribosomal RNA genes
Tip		članek
Vol. in št.		Letnik 18, št. 20
Leto izdaje		1990
Obseg		str. 5949-5954
ISSN		0305-1048 - Nucleic acids research
Jezik		eng
Abstrakt		The distribution patterns of shared short repetitive motifs in the expansion segments of the large subunit rRNA genes of different species show that these segments are coevolving as a set and that in two examined vertebrate species the RNA secondary structures are conserved as a consequence of runs of motifs in one region being compensated by complementary motifs in another. These unusual processes, involving replication-slippage, have implications for the evolution of ribosomal RNA and for the use of the rDNA multigene family as a 'molecular clock' for assessing relationships between species.
Proste vsebinske oznake		RNA geni ekspanzijski segmenti genov evolucija ribosomov expansion segments of genes RNA genes evolution of ribosomal