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Abstract
Despite its importance, the selective and mechanistic forces governing recombination remain obscure. A recent study of facultatively asexual honeybees suggests a clear case of adaptive adjustment of recombination rate. That these bees' atypical genetics were central to the experiment underscores the utility of genetic oddities as model organisms for studying fundamental questions.Entities:
Keywords: atypical genetic systems; hymenoptera; parthenogenesis; recombination rate
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Year: 2021 PMID: 34404256 PMCID: PMC8371359 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1478
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Biol Sci ISSN: 0962-8452 Impact factor: 5.530