GC-biased gene conversion links the recombination landscape and demography to genomic base composition: GC-biased gene conversion drives genomic base composition across a wide range of species

BioEssays

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1317-1326

  Mugal, Carina F ^a   Weber, Claudia C ^a,b   Ellegren, Hans ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Temple University   (United States)

Author keywords

Base composition; GC content; Gene conversion; Recombination

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; HETERODUPLEX;

ARTICLE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; LIFE HISTORY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; ANIMAL; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOME; MEIOSIS; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84947487978     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201500058     Document Type: Article

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