Cut thy neighbor: Cyclic birth and death of recombination hotspots via genetic conflict

Genetics

Volumn 179, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2229-2238

  Friberg, Urban ^a   Rice, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODON; COEVOLUTION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE CONVERSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; INTRON; MEIOSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL MODEL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ANIMALS; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 55749102281     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.085563     Document Type: Article

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