Fine-scale population recombination rates, hotspots, and correlates of recombination in the Medicago truncatula genome

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 726-737

  Paape, Timothy ^a,b   Zhou, Peng ^a   Branca, Antoine ^c   Briskine, Roman ^a   Young, Nevin ^a   Tiffin, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Centromere; GC content; Gene density; Recombination; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CENTROMERE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENOME; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTROMERE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, PLANT; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84865427262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evs046     Document Type: Article

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