Notably, these regions are continuously evolving; for example, several mammalian lineages are undergoing a recurrent process of GC-rich isochore erosion, with a significant trend of G/C to A/T substitutions, whereas others are independently increasing their overall GC-content ( Duret et al. 2002 ; Belle et al. 2004 ; Romiguier et al. 2010 ).
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