Detection of latent sequence periodicities.
A method is proposed for the automatic detection of serial periodicities in a linear sequence. Its application to DNA subtelomeric sequences from two lower eukaryotes, P.falciparum and S.cerevisiae, reveals ordered patterns organised in hierarchical periodicities, not easily recognizable by other methods. The possible implications concerning the evolution of tandemly repetitive arrays are discussed in light of a model which involves, as successive steps, random repeat modification, the fusion of differently modified repeat versions into longer units, and the amplification of (and/or homogenization to) the more recent repeat units.
Laboratorio di Biologia Cellulare, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
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D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D004247:DNA; D004271:DNA, Fungal; D008722:Methods; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum / Q000235:genetics; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics
D004271:DNA, Fungal; D004247:DNA