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SUBMITTER: Noor MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2727390 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Molecular biology and evolution 20080822 11
Local rates of recombination positively correlate with DNA sequence diversity in many species. To test whether this relationship stems from mutagenicity of meiotic recombination, studies often look for a similar association between local rates of recombination and sequence "divergence" between species. Because recombination is mutagenic in yeast, I evaluate this assay by testing whether noncoding DNA sequence divergence between Saccharomyces species is related to measures of meiotic double-stran ...[more]