| Literature DB >> 23733850 |
Caiti S Smukowski Heil1, Mohamed A F Noor.
Abstract
An article by Singh and colleagues in this issue of GENETICS quantifies variation in recombination rate across a small region of the Drosophila melanogaster genome, providing an opportunity for instructors of genetics to introduce or reinforce important concepts such as recombination and recombination rate variation, genome sequencing, and sequence features of the genome. Additional background information, a detailed explanation of the methods used in this study, and discussion questions are provided.Entities:
Keywords: Drosophila melanogaster; crossing over; recombination
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23733850 PMCID: PMC3664845 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.113.150771
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Genetics ISSN: 0016-6731 Impact factor: 4.562