Understanding the genetic basis of variation in meiotic recombination: past, present, and future

SE Johnston - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Meiotic recombination is a fundamental feature of sexually reproducing species. It is often
required for proper chromosome segregation and plays important role in adaptation and the …

Evolution and plasticity of genome-wide meiotic recombination rates

IR Henderson, K Bomblies - Annual review of genetics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Sex, as well as meiotic recombination between homologous chromosomes, is nearly
ubiquitous among eukaryotes. In those species that use it, recombination is important for …

Genome-wide analyses of introgression between two sympatric Asian oak species

R Fu, Y Zhu, Y Liu, Y Feng, RS Lu, Y Li, P Li… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Introgression can be an important source of new alleles for adaption under rapidly changing
environments, perhaps even more important than standing variation. Though introgression …

The megabase-scale crossover landscape is largely independent of sequence divergence

Q Lian, V Solier, B Walkemeier, S Durand… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Meiotic recombination frequency varies along chromosomes and strongly correlates with
sequence divergence. However, the causal relationship between recombination landscapes …

Natural variation identifies SNI1, the SMC5/6 component, as a modifier of meiotic crossover in Arabidopsis

L Zhu, N Fernández-Jiménez… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The frequency and distribution of meiotic crossovers are tightly controlled; however,
variation in this process can be observed both within and between species. Using crosses of …

Long divergent haplotypes introgressed from wild sheep are associated with distinct morphological and adaptive characteristics in domestic sheep

H Cheng, Z Zhang, J Wen, JA Lenstra, R Heller… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The worldwide sheep population comprises more than 1000 breeds. Together, these exhibit
a considerable morphological diversity, which has not been extensively investigated at the …

Advances in genomics-based breeding of barley: molecular tools and genomic databases

A Riaz, F Kanwal, A Börner, K Pillen, F Dai… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Barley is the fourth most important cereal crop and has been domesticated and cultivated for
more than 10,000 years. Breeding climate-smart and stress-tolerant cultivars is considered …

The Role of Hybridization in Species Formation and Persistence

JV Peñalba, A Runemark, JI Meier… - Cold Spring …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Hybridization, or interbreeding between different taxa, was traditionally considered to be
rare and to have a largely detrimental impact on biodiversity, sometimes leading to the …

Alternating between even and odd ploidy levels switches on and off the recombination control, even near the centromeres

F Boideau, V Huteau, L Maillet, A Brunet… - The Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Meiotic recombination is a key biological process in plant evolution and breeding, as it
generates genetic diversity in each generation through the formation of crossovers (COs) …

The role of REC8 in the innate immune response to viral infection

S Chen, Q Liu, L Zhang, J Ma, B Xue, H Li… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT REC8 meiotic recombination protein (REC8) is a member of structural
maintenance of chromosome (SMC) protein partners, which play an important role in …