Extreme Recombination Frequencies Shape Genome Variation and Evolution in the Honeybee, Apis mellifera

Causes and consequences of crossing-over evidenced via a high-resolution recombinational landscape of the honey bee

(2015) Haoxuan Liu et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Biased Gene Conversion Skews Allele Frequencies in Human Populations, Increasing the Disease Burden of Recessive Alleles

(2014) Joseph Lachance et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Finding the missing honey bee genes: lessons learned from a genome upgrade

(2014) Christine G Elsik et al.   BMC GENOMICS

A worldwide survey of genome sequence variation provides insight into the evolutionary history of the honeybee Apis mellifera

(2014) Andreas Wallberg et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Crossover Heterogeneity in the Absence of Hotspots in Caenorhabditis elegans

(2013) Taniya Kaur et al.   GENETICS

Population Genomic Analysis Reveals No Evidence for GC-Biased Gene Conversion in Drosophila melanogaster

(2013) Matthew C. Robinson et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

High-resolution linkage map for two honeybee chromosomes: the hotspot quest

(2013) Florence Mougel et al.   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS

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

(2013) Kyuha Choi et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Meiotic recombination in mammals: localization and regulation

(2013) Frédéric Baudat et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Genomic signatures of selection at linked sites: unifying the disparity among species

(2013) Asher D. Cutter et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Genetic Recombination Is Targeted towards Gene Promoter Regions in Dogs

(2013) Adam Auton et al.   PLoS Genetics

Control of meiotic recombination frequency in plant genomes

(2012) Ian R Henderson   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic Patterns of GC-Biased Gene Conversion in Placental Mammals and the Evolutionary Dynamics of Recombination Landscapes

(2012) Nicolas Lartillot   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Recombination is associated with the evolution of genome structure and worker behavior in honey bees

(2012) C. F. Kent 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

Recombination Modulates How Selection Affects Linked Sites in Drosophila

(2012) Suzanne E. McGaugh et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Genome-Wide Fine-Scale Recombination Rate Variation in Drosophila melanogaster

(2012) Andrew H. Chan et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Many Landscapes of Recombination in Drosophila melanogaster

(2012) Josep M. Comeron et al.   PLoS Genetics

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

(2011) Jing Pan et al.   CELL

Common and novel transcriptional routes to behavioral maturation in worker and male honey bees

(2011) A. Zayed et al.   GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

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

Direct and indirect consequences of meiotic recombination: implications for genome evolution

(2011) Matthew T. Webster et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Natural Selection Affects Multiple Aspects of Genetic Variation at Putatively Neutral Sites across the Human Genome

(2011) Kirk E. Lohmueller et al.   PLoS Genetics

Meiotic recombination favors the spreading of deleterious mutations in human populations

(2010) Anamaria Necşulea et al.   HUMAN MUTATION

Comparative Linkage Mapping Suggests a High Recombination Rate in All Honeybees

(2010) E. R. Meznar et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

A map of human genome variation from population-scale sequencing

(2010) Richard M. Durbin et al.   NATURE

Mammalian recombination hot spots: properties, control and evolution

(2010) Kenneth Paigen et al.   NATURE REVIEWS 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

The Honey Bee Epigenomes: Differential Methylation of Brain DNA in Queens and Workers

(2010) Frank Lyko et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Biased Gene Conversion and the Evolution of Mammalian Genomic Landscapes

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

HapMap methylation-associated SNPs, markers of germline DNA methylation, positively correlate with regional levels of human meiotic recombination

(2009) M. I. Sigurdsson et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Estimation of Fine-Scale Recombination Intensity Variation in the white–echinus Interval of D. melanogaster

(2009) Nadia D. Singh et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

DNA methylation is widespread and associated with differential gene expression in castes of the honeybee, Apis mellifera

(2009) N. Elango et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hotspots of Biased Nucleotide Substitutions in Human Genes

(2009) Jonas Berglund et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Pervasive Natural Selection in the Drosophila Genome?

(2009) Guy Sella et al.   PLoS Genetics

Pervasive Hitchhiking at Coding and Regulatory Sites in Humans

(2009) James J. Cai et al.   PLoS Genetics

High-resolution mapping of meiotic crossovers and non-crossovers in yeast

(2008) Eugenio Mancera et al.   NATURE

Genetic and genomic analyses of the division of labour in insect societies

(2008) Chris R. Smith et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Fine-scale mapping of recombination rate in Drosophila refines its correlation to diversity and divergence

(2008) R. J. Kulathinal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

GC-biased gene conversion promotes the fixation of deleterious amino acid changes in primates

(2008) Nicolas Galtier et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

The Impact of Recombination on Nucleotide Substitutions in the Human Genome

(2008) Laurent Duret et al.   PLoS Genetics