Length asymmetry and heterozygosity strongly influences the evolution of poly-A microsatellites at meiotic recombination hotspots
A. Heissl, A. J. Betancourt, P. Hermann, G. Povysil, B. Arbeithuber, A. Futschik, T. Ebner, I. Tiemann-Boege
The paper investigates how length asymmetry and heterozygosity affect poly-A microsatellite evolution at meiotic recombination hotspots, finding deletion and insertion biases based on allele length differences.
bioRxiv · Oct 3, 2018 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology