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MuDR transposase increases the frequency of meiotic crossovers in the vicinity of a Mu insertion in the maize a1 gene.
Genetics - 1 Feb 2005
Yandeau-Nelson Marna D, Zhou Qing, Yao Hong, Xu Xiaojie, Nikolau Basil J, Schnable Patrick S
Abstract excerpt
Although DNA breaks stimulate mitotic recombination in plants, their effects on meiotic recombination are not known. Recombination across a maize a1 allele containing a nonautonomous Mu transposon was studied in the presence and absence of the MuDR-encoded transposase. Recombinant A1' alleles isolated from a1-mum2/a1::rdt heterozygotes arose via either crossovers (32 CO events) or noncrossovers (8 NCO events). In...
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