High Diversity at PRDM9 in Chimpanzees and Bonobos

A Fine-Scale Chimpanzee Genetic Map from Population Sequencing

(2012) A. Auton et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2011) E. Axelsson et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

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

Bonobos Fall within the Genomic Variation of Chimpanzees

(2011) Anne Fischer et al.   PLoS One

Prdm9, a Major Determinant of Meiotic Recombination Hotspots, Is Not Functional in Dogs and Their Wild Relatives, Wolves and Coyotes

(2011) Violeta Muñoz-Fuentes 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 Case of the Fickle Fingers: How the PRDM9 Zinc Finger Protein Specifies Meiotic Recombination Hotspots in Humans

(2011) Laure Ségurel et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Meiosis: A PRDM9 Guide to the Hotspots of Recombination

(2010) Andreas Hochwagen et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Is the control of recombination conserved among diverse eukaryotes?

(2010) L Goodstadt et al.   HEREDITY

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

(2010) Augustine Kong et al.   NATURE

PRDM9 marks the spot

(2010) Gil McVean et al.   NATURE GENETICS

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

(2010) Ingrid L Berg et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Prdm9 Controls Activation of Mammalian Recombination Hotspots

(2010) E. D. Parvanov et al.   SCIENCE

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

Genetic Control of Hotspots

(2010) V. G. Cheung et al.   SCIENCE

Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms of the PRDM9 (MEISETZ) Gene in Patients With Nonobstructive Azoospermia

(2009) S. Irie et al.   JOURNAL OF ANDROLOGY

SeaView Version 4: A Multiplatform Graphical User Interface for Sequence Alignment and Phylogenetic Tree Building

(2009) M. Gouy et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The rise and fall of a human recombination hot spot

(2009) Alec J Jeffreys et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Extraordinary Molecular Evolution in the PRDM9 Fertility Gene

(2009) James H. Thomas et al.   PLoS One

Accelerated Evolution of the Prdm9 Speciation Gene across Diverse Metazoan Taxa

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

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

(2008) Simon Myers et al.   NATURE GENETICS

A Mouse Speciation Gene Encodes a Meiotic Histone H3 Methyltransferase

(2008) O. Mihola et al.   SCIENCE