Abstract
Eukaryotic genomes are composed primarily of nonprotein-coding DNA. The most actively studied portion of this DNA is called repetitive DNA, which is produced in multiple copies by a variety of mechanisms. Repetitive DNA represents the most recent addition to nonprotein coding DNA and is expected to hold important clues to the origin and evolution of genomic DNA. There are good reasons to believe that contemporary mechanisms underlying the origin and evolution of repetitive DNA are essentially the same as mechanisms that generated other nonprotein-coding sequences in the distant past.
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Jurka, J. (2003). Repetitive DNA. In: Krawetz, S.A., Womble, D.D. (eds) Introduction to Bioinformatics. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-335-4_8
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