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Chickens possess centromeres with both extended tandem repeats and short non-tandem-repetitive sequences

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LINE Retrotransposon RNA Is an Essential Structural and Functional Epigenetic Component of a Core Neocentromeric Chromatin

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Centromeres: Old tales and new tools

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