CHROMOSOME SIZE-DEPENDENT CONTROL OF MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION

被引:146
作者
KABACK, DB
GUACCI, V
BARBER, D
MAHON, JW
机构
[1] Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103
[2] Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore
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10.1126/science.1566070
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Smaller chromosomes have higher rates of meiotic reciprocal recombination (centimorgans per kilobase pair) than larger chromosomes. This report demonstrates that decreasing the size of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosomal DNA molecules increases rates of meiotic recombination and increasing chromosome size decreases recombination rates. These results indicate that chromosome size directly affects meiotic reciprocal recombination.
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