How can the low levels of DNA sequence variation in regions of the drosophila genome with low recombination rates be explained?

doi:10.1073/pnas.91.15.6815

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How can the low levels of DNA sequence variation in regions of the drosophila genome with low recombination rates be explained?

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 19 Jul 1994

Hudson R R

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Different regions of the Drosophila genome have very different rates of recombination. For example, near centromeres and near the tips of chromosomes, the rates of recombination are much lower than in other regions. Several surveys of polymorphisms in Drosophila have now documented that levels of...

Topics

Animals
Biological Evolution
Drosophila
Genetic Variation
Models, Genetic
Mutation
Recombination, Genetic

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