Chromosome size-dependent control of meiotic recombination - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1992 Apr 10;256(5054):228-32.

doi: 10.1126/science.1566070.

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Chromosome size-dependent control of meiotic recombination

D B Kaback et al. Science. 1992.

Abstract

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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