DNA motifs are not general predictors of recombination in two Drosophila sister species.
James Malcolm Howie, Rupert Mazzucco, Thomas Taus, Viola Nolte, Christian Schlötterer
The paper investigates whether DNA motifs predict recombination rates in Drosophila species and finds that motif density does not explain large-scale recombination patterns in D. melanogaster or its sister species D. simulans.
Genome Biology and Evolution · Apr 1, 2019Peer-reviewedGenomics