Tautz D
Zoologisches Institute der Universität München, Germany.
EXS. 1993;67:21-8. doi: 10.1007/978-3-0348-8583-6_2.
Tandemly repetitive DNA is a major component of all eukaryotic genomes. This fact has been known for almost 30 years and research on this class of DNA is still being done. Its biology and evolution are therefore now becoming fairly well understood. DNA-fingerprint techniques rely very much on this knowledge. However, the large amount of research on these sequences has inevitably led to a large number of different concepts and theories about their nature. This has also resulted in some confusion as to the nomenclature. The following notes are intended to resolve this confusion somewhat and to give some definitions for the major classes of tandemly repetitive DNA.
串联重复DNA是所有真核生物基因组的主要组成部分。这一事实已为人所知近30年，对这类DNA的研究仍在进行。因此，其生物学特性和进化过程现在已得到相当充分的了解。DNA指纹技术在很大程度上依赖于这方面的知识。然而，对这些序列的大量研究不可避免地导致了关于它们性质的大量不同概念和理论。这也在命名法上造成了一些混乱。以下说明旨在在一定程度上解决这种混乱，并为串联重复DNA的主要类别给出一些定义。
