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Meiotic recombination strongly influences GC-content evolution in short regions in the mouse genome.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Dec 2013
Clément Yves, Arndt Peter F
Abstract excerpt
Meiotic recombination is known to influence GC-content evolution in large regions of mammalian genomes by favoring the fixation of G and C alleles and increasing the rate of A/T to G/C substitutions. This process is known as GC-biased gene conversion (gBGC). Until recently, genome-wide measures of fine-scale recombination activity were unavailable in mice. Additionally, comparative studies focusing on mouse were...
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