Persistent DNA-break potential near telomeres increases initiation of meiotic recombination on short chromosomes
Vijayalakshmi V. Subramanian, Xuan Zhu, Tovah E. Markowitz, Luís A. Vale-Silva, Pedro A. San-Segundo, Nancy M. Hollingsworth, Scott Keeney, Andreas Hochwagen
The paper identifies privileged end-adjacent regions near telomeres that maintain DSBs and contribute to higher recombination rates on short chromosomes in yeast.
Nature Communications · Feb 27, 2019Peer-reviewedGenomics