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SUBMITTER: Yang S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3529023 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yang Sihai S Yuan Yang Y Wang Long L Li Jing J Wang Wen W Liu Haoxuan H Chen Jian-Qun JQ Hurst Laurence D LD Tian Dacheng D
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20121203 51
The evolutionary importance of meiosis may not solely be associated with allelic shuffling caused by crossing-over but also have to do with its more immediate effects such as gene conversion. Although estimates of the crossing-over rate are often well resolved, the gene conversion rate is much less clear. In Arabidopsis, for example, next-generation sequencing approaches suggest that the two rates are about the same, which contrasts with indirect measures, these suggesting an excess of gene conv ...[more]