Recombining without hotspots: A comprehensive evolutionary portrait of recombination in two closely related species of Drosophila

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2829-2842

  Smukowski Heil, Caiti S ^a,b   Ellison, Chris ^c   Dubin, Matthew ^a   Noor, Mohamed A F ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Evolution; Hotspots; Linkage disequilibrium; Recombination

Indexed keywords

HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAN TROGLODYTES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84992101174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evv182     Document Type: Article

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