Association of poly-purine/poly-pyrimidine sequences with meiotic recombination hot spots

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Meiotic recombination events have been found to concentrate in 1–2.5 kilo base regions, but these recombination hot spots do not share a consensus sequence and why they occur at specific sites is not fully understood. Some previous e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pitt Joel PW, Bagshaw Andrew TM, Gemmell Neil J
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-07-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/7/179