Evolutionary history and positional shift of a rice centromere.
Rice centromere 8 was previously proposed to be an "immature" centromere that recently arose from a genic region. Our comparative genomics analysis indicates that Cen8 was formed at its current location at least 7-9 million years ago and was physically shifted by a more recent inversion of a segment spanning centromeric and pericentromeric regions.
Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA.
Jianxin
J
Ma
Rod A
RA
Wing
Jeffrey L
JL
Bennetzen
Scott A
SA
Jackson
D002503:Centromere / Q000235:genetics*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D018745:Genome, Plant; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D012275:Oryza / Q000235:genetics*