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Causes and consequences of a complex recombinational landscape in the ant Cardiocondyla obscurior.
Genome research - 23 Jul 2024
Errbii Mohammed, Gadau Jürgen, Becker Kerstin, Schrader Lukas, Oettler Jan
Abstract excerpt
Eusocial Hymenoptera have the highest recombination rates among all multicellular animals studied so far, but it is unclear why this is and how this affects the biology of individual species. A high-resolution linkage map for the ant Cardiocondyla obscurior corroborates genome-wide high recombination rates reported for ants (8.1 cM/Mb). However, recombination is locally suppressed in regions that are enriched...
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