Unusually high recombination rate detected in the sex locus region of the honey bee (Apis mellifera)

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1701-1708

  Beye, Martin ^a,c   Hunt, Greg J ^b   Page, Robert E ^c   Kim Fondrk, M ^c   Grohmann, Lore ^d   Moritz, R F A ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Inst fur Okologie und Biol   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HONEYBEE; HYMENOPTERA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEES; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032711227     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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