Mutant rec-1 eliminates the meiotic pattern of crossing over in Caenorhabditis elegans.

doi:10.1093/genetics/141.4.1339

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Mutant rec-1 eliminates the meiotic pattern of crossing over in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Genetics - 1 Dec 1995

Zetka M C, Rose A M

Abstract excerpt

Meiotic crossovers are not randomly distributed along the chromosome. In Caenorhabditis elegans the central portions of the autosomes have relatively few crossovers compared to the flanking regions. We have measured the frequency of crossing over for several intervals across chromosome I in strai...

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Animals
Caenorhabditis elegans
Crossing Over, Genetic
Genetic Complementation Test
Helminth Proteins
Homozygote
Male
Meiosis
Mutation

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