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XB-ART-35841
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1974 May 01;715:1819-23.
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The amplified ribosomal DNA of dytiscid beetles.

Gall JG , Rochaix JD .


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During oogenesis in many animals there is a massive extrachromosomal synthesis of the genes for ribosomal RNA. In Dytiscid beetles, as in the toad Xenopus, the amplified ribosomal DNA occurs as circular molecules of different sizes. The circles fall into size classes that are integral multiples of a unit circle. It is probable that the unit circle contains the coding sequence for one precursor ribosomal RNA molecule plus accompanying spacer sequences.

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Brown, Specific gene amplification in oocytes. Oocyte nuclei contain extrachromosomal replicas of the genes for ribosomal RNA. 1968, Pubmed