Origin and Evolution of Telomeres

ISBN: 9781587063091 出版年：2008 页码：194 Nosek, Jozef CRC Press

Linear chromosomes represent an evolutionary innovation associated with the origin of eukaryotic cells. This book describes how linear chromosomes and primordial pathways for maintaining their terminal structures, telomeres, emerged in early eukaryotes.Telomeres, derived from the Greek meaning terminal part, were first described by Hermann Muller i