GenomicsbioRxiv
Diversity and evolution of centromere repeats in the maize genome
Paul Bilinski, Kevin Distor, Jose Gutierrez-Lopez…·Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
The paper investigates the evolution of CentC repeats in maize, finding that tandem duplications drive diversity and that domestication reduced CentC abundance while increasing Cent4.
DOI 10.1007/s00412-014-0483-8