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The DNA sequences coding for the individual major subfractions of the putative histone mRNAs are all 1,200-fold reiterated and are contained in a “cryptic” density satellite in Psam-mechinus DNA. While random mutational drift cannot be detected in the 9S mRNA coding sequences within the species, it is very much in evidence during the evolution of two related sea urchin species.
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WEINBERG, E., BIRNSTIEL, M., PURDOM, I. et al. Genes Coding for Polysomal 9S RNA of Sea Urchins: Conservation and Divergence. Nature 240, 225–228 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/240225a0
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