Recombination Rate Heterogeneity within Arabidopsis Disease Resistance Genes

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Choi, Kyuha ^a   Reinhard, Carsten ^a   Serra, Heïdi ^a   Ziolkowski, Piotr A ^a,b   Underwood, Charles J ^a,c   Zhao, Xiaohui ^a   Hardcastle, Thomas J ^a   Yelina, Nataliya E ^a   Griffin, Catherine ^a   Jackson, Matthew ^a   Mézard, Christine ^d   McVean, Gil ^e   Copenhaver, Gregory P ^f,g   Henderson, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 5; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MEIOSIS; NBS LRR GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PLANT IMMUNITY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RAC1 GENE; ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; CROSS BREEDING; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PLANT DISEASE; POLLEN;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; RAC1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOTE; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MEIOSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PLANT DISEASES; POLLEN; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84982797804     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006179     Document Type: Article

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