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Fine-Scale Crossover Rate Variation on the Caenorhabditis elegans X Chromosome.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 1 Jun 2016
Bernstein Max R, Rockman Matthew V
Abstract excerpt
Meiotic recombination creates genotypic diversity within species. Recombination rates vary substantially across taxa, and the distribution of crossovers can differ significantly among populations and between sexes. Crossover locations within species have been found to vary by chromosome and by position within chromosomes, where most crossover events occur in small regions known as recombination hotspots. However,...
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