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Integrating genomics, bioinformatics, and classical genetics to study the effects of recombination on genome evolution.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jul 2002
Birdsell John A
Abstract excerpt
This study presents compelling evidence that recombination significantly increases the silent GC content of a genome in a selectively neutral manner, resulting in a highly significant positive correlation between recombination and "GC3s" in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Neither selection no...
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