Article
CNVs are associated with genomic architecture in a songbird.
BMC genomics - 13 Mar 2018
da Silva Vinicius H, Laine Veronika N, Bosse Mirte, Oers Kees van, Dibbits Bert, Visser Marcel E, M A Crooijmans Richard P, Groenen Martien A M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Understanding variation in genome structure is essential to understand phenotypic differences within populations and the evolutionary history of species. A promising form of this structural variation is copy number variation (CNV). CNVs can be generated by different recombination mechanisms, such as non-allelic homologous recombination, that rely on specific characteristics of the genome architecture....
Topics
- Animals
- Avian Proteins
- DNA Copy Number Variations
- Evolution, Molecular
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Gene Regulatory Networks
- Male
- Maternal Inheritance
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Selection, Genetic
- Songbirds