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Great majority of recombination events in Arabidopsis are gene conversion events.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 18 Dec 2012
Yang Sihai, Yuan Yang, Wang Long, Li Jing, Wang Wen, Liu Haoxuan, Chen Jian-Qun, Hurst Laurence D, Tian Dacheng
Abstract excerpt
The evolutionary importance of meiosis may not solely be associated with allelic shuffling caused by crossing-over but also have to do with its more immediate effects such as gene conversion. Although estimates of the crossing-over rate are often well resolved, the gene conversion rate is much less clear. In Arabidopsis, for example, next-generation sequencing approaches suggest that the two rates are about the...
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