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Mutation Load in Sunflower Inversions Is Negatively Correlated with Inversion Heterozygosity.
Molecular biology and evolution - 3 May 2022
Huang Kaichi, Ostevik Kate L, Elphinstone Cassandra, Todesco Marco, Bercovich Natalia, Owens Gregory L, Rieseberg Loren H
Abstract excerpt
Recombination is critical both for accelerating adaptation and purging deleterious mutations. Chromosomal inversions can act as recombination modifiers that suppress local recombination in heterozygotes and thus, under some conditions, are predicted to accumulate such mutations. In this study, we investigated patterns of recombination, transposable element abundance, and coding sequence evolution across the...
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