Annals of Botany, Vol. 117, No. 7 (June 2016), pp. 1209-1220 (12 pages) Background and Aims Several unrelated lineages such as plastids, viruses and plasmids, have converged on quadripartite genomes ...
It has been suggested that inverted repeat (palindrome) sequences, which are widespread in eukaryotic genomes, exist in two alternate configurations, a linear form and a cruciform. To investigate the ...