The Red Queen Model of Recombination Hotspots Evolution in the Light of Archaic and Modern Human Genomes

Primate evolution of the recombination regulator PRDM9

(2014) Jerrod J. Schwartz et al.   Nature Communications

A fine-scale recombination map of the human-chimpanzee ancestor reveals faster change in humans than in chimpanzees and a strong impact of GC-biased gene conversion

(2013) K. Munch et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

GC-Biased Gene Conversion in Yeast Is Specifically Associated with Crossovers: Molecular Mechanisms and Evolutionary Significance

(2013) Yann Lesecque et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Arabidopsis meiotic crossover hot spots overlap with H2A.Z nucleosomes at gene promoters

(2013) Kyuha Choi et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Genetic Recombination Is Targeted towards Gene Promoter Regions in Dogs

(2013) Adam Auton et al.   PLoS Genetics

DNA binding specificities of the long zinc-finger recombination protein PRDM9

(2013) Timothy Billings et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Genetic recombination is directed away from functional genomic elements in mice

(2012) Kevin Brick et al.   NATURE

Insights into hominid evolution from the gorilla genome sequence

(2012) Aylwyn Scally et al.   NATURE

An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes

(2012)   NATURE

Rate of de novo mutations and the importance of father’s age to disease risk

(2012) Augustine Kong et al.   NATURE

Generation times in wild chimpanzees and gorillas suggest earlier divergence times in great ape and human evolution

(2012) K. E. Langergraber et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Fine-Scale Chimpanzee Genetic Map from Population Sequencing

(2012) A. Auton et al.   SCIENCE

A High-Coverage Genome Sequence from an Archaic Denisovan Individual

(2012) M. Meyer et al.   SCIENCE

A Hierarchical Combination of Factors Shapes the Genome-wide Topography of Yeast Meiotic Recombination Initiation

(2011) Jing Pan et al.   CELL

Death of PRDM9 coincides with stabilization of the recombination landscape in the dog genome

(2011) E. Axelsson et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

GC-Biased Gene Conversion and Selection Affect GC Content in the Oryza Genus (rice)

(2011) Aline Muyle et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genome-wide analysis reveals novel molecular features of mouse recombination hotspots

(2011) Fatima Smagulova et al.   NATURE

The landscape of recombination in African Americans

(2011) Anjali G. Hinch et al.   NATURE

Variation in Human Recombination Rates and Its Genetic Determinants

(2011) Adi Fledel-Alon et al.   PLoS One

Variants of the protein PRDM9 differentially regulate a set of human meiotic recombination hotspots highly active in African populations

(2011) I. L. Berg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

What are the genomic drivers of the rapid evolution of PRDM9?

(2011) Chris P. Ponting   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Mouse PRDM9 DNA-Binding Specificity Determines Sites of Histone H3 Lysine 4 Trimethylation for Initiation of Meiotic Recombination

(2011) Corinne Grey et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Red Queen theory of recombination hotspots

(2010) F. ÚBEDA et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Fine-scale recombination rate differences between sexes, populations and individuals

(2010) Augustine Kong et al.   NATURE

A map of human genome variation from population-scale sequencing

(2010) Richard M. Durbin et al.   NATURE

PRDM9 variation strongly influences recombination hot-spot activity and meiotic instability in humans

(2010) Ingrid L Berg et al.   NATURE GENETICS

The UCSC Genome Browser database: update 2011

(2010) P. A. Fujita et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Drive Against Hotspot Motifs in Primates Implicates the PRDM9 Gene in Meiotic Recombination

(2010) S. Myers et al.   SCIENCE

PRDM9 Is a Major Determinant of Meiotic Recombination Hotspots in Humans and Mice

(2010) F. Baudat et al.   SCIENCE

Biased Gene Conversion and the Evolution of Mammalian Genomic Landscapes

(2009) Laurent Duret et al.   Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Accelerated Evolution of the Prdm9 Speciation Gene across Diverse Metazoan Taxa

(2009) Peter L. Oliver et al.   PLoS Genetics

Genome-wide nucleotide-level mammalian ancestor reconstruction

(2008) B. Paten et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

A common sequence motif associated with recombination hot spots and genome instability in humans

(2008) Simon Myers et al.   NATURE GENETICS

The Impact of Recombination on Nucleotide Substitutions in the Human Genome

(2008) Laurent Duret et al.   PLoS Genetics