title: What's in a centromere?
abstract: The complete sequence of rice centromere 8 reveals a small amount of centromere-specific satellite sequence in blocks interrupted by retrotransposons and other repetitive DNA, in an arrangement that is strikingly similar in overall size and content to other centromeres of multicellular eukaryotes.
authors.affiliation: Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
authors.forename: Jonathan C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Lamb
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Theuri
authors.forename: James A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Birchler
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002503:Centromere / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans