The Red Queen Model of Recombination Hotspots Evolution in the Light of Archaic and Modern Human Genomes

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Lesecque, Yann ^a   Glémin, Sylvain ^b   Lartillot, Nicolas ^a   Mouchiroud, Dominique ^a   Duret, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRDM9 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PRDM9 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; BIASED GENE CONVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LOCUS; HOMINID; HOTSPOT LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RECOMBINATION HOTSPOT EVOLUTION; RED QUEEN THEORY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; THEORY; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME; CROSSING OVER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PAN TROGLODYTES;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENOME, HUMAN; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; PAN TROGLODYTES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84912075548     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004790     Document Type: Article

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