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The modern methods of molecular biology have led to major discoveries on the fine structure of eukaryotic genes and their expression in various biological situations. Comparatively, the progress in the definition of the replication units of eukaryotic DNA has been very slow; one has to deal with a periodic phenomenon restricted to a short period of the cell cycle. Moreover, eukaryotic cellular genomes are replicated as a series of several thousand replicons, so the replication of a specific DNA fragment is a short-lived event, which cannot be analyzed in nonsynchronously growing cultures of cells.
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Pierron, G. (1986). Temporal Order of Replication and Gene Expression in Physarum polycephalum . In: Dove, W.F., Dee, J., Hatano, S., Haugli, F.B., Wohlfarth-Bottermann, KE. (eds) The Molecular Biology of Physarum polycephalum . NATO ASI Series, vol 106. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2203-0_4
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