Oribatid mites, minuscule soil-dwelling creatures, have been decomposing organic matter for millions of years. With over ...

It is thought that these proteins play a role in preventing recombination during DNA replication when it is not needed. An alternate hypothesis proposes that homologous chromosomes reside in pairs ...

Recombination occurs when two molecules of DNA exchange pieces of their genetic material with each other. One of the most notable examples of recombination takes place during meiosis (specifically ...

A high-quality genome assembly of Silene latifolia was generated by researchers at CNRS/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and collaborating institutions. The team identified extensive recombination ...

so it does not have the opportunity to go through genetic recombination, or the "shuffling of genes that occurs in each generation which helps to eliminate damaging gene mutations," Darren Kent ...

Recombination between 2 different chromosomes has the potential to alter the genetic information in a cell. For example, when homologs recombine, loss of heterozygosity (LOH) can result, in which ...

One of the key stages in the evolution of different sex chromosomes is a loss of recombination—the exchange of DNA during meiosis—that is both an important mechanism for maintaining genetic diversity ...

Generally, researchers use coinheritance of a trait of interest with specific genetic markers—whose positions are known—to figure out what part of the genome is responsible for a given phenotype. But ...

2011 Genetics Society of America. See also Thacker, D., Lam, I., Knop, M., Keeney, S. 2011. Genetics 189: 423-439. Studies of meiotic recombination often rely on microdissecting the four products of a ...