Stable recombination hotspots in birds
Sonal Singhal, Ellen Leffler, Keerthi Sannareddy, Isaac Turner, Oliver Venn, Daniel Hooper, Alva Strand, Qiye Li, Brian Raney, Christopher Balakrishnan, Simon Griffith, Gil McVean, Molly Przeworski
The paper identifies recombination hotspots in two bird species, finding they are shared between species and enriched near CpG islands and transcription start sites.
bioRxiv · Jul 23, 2015Evolutionary Biology