copy number of the gene of interest

[Robert A. Bouchard]

In my experience (specifically with maize the gene families for the
ubiquitins, shsps, and hsp 80s) a probe confined *strictly* to the 3'UTR
will generally be gene-specific at normal stringencies even when the ORFs
of the related genes have very high homology.  I suggest you use pcr to
lift out the 3' UTR starting at a point just beyond the stop codon of your
coding sequence.



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