Patterns of recombination in snakes reveal a tug of war between PRDM9 and promoter-like features.

Carla HogeMarc de ManuelMohamed MahgoubNaima OkamiZachary FullerShreya BanerjeeZachary BakerMorgan McNultyPeter AndolfattoTodd S MacfarlanMolly SchumerAthanasia C TzikaMolly Przeworski

Published in: bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2023)

While the localization of meiotic recombination in vertebrates was previously thought to occur using one of two distinct mechanisms, our analysis of recombination in corn snakes reveals that they and likely other vertebrates use both of these mechanisms.

Keyphrases

dna repair
dna damage
dna methylation
gene expression
genome wide
oxidative stress