Variation in crossing-over rates across chromosome 4 of Arabidopsis thaliana reveals the presence of meiotic recombination "hot spots"

Genome Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 106-114

  Drouaud, Jan ^a   Camilleri, Christine ^a,b   Bourguignon, Pierre Yves ^c   Canaguier, Aurélie ^a,d   Bérard, Aurélie ^a,b   Vezon, Daniel ^a   Giancola, Sandra ^a,b   Brunel, Dominique ^a,b   Colot, Vincent ^d   Prum, Bernard ^c   Quesneville, Hadi ^e   Mézard, Christine ^a  

^a INSTITUT JEAN PIERRE BOURGIN   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE GÉNOTYPAGE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; CROSSING OVER; DENSITY; GENE; HIGHER PLANT; MEIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 30044442013     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.4319006     Document Type: Article

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