Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Nels and Vincent discuss the evolution of recombination in the genomes of birds and yeast.
Links for this episode
- Stable recombination hotspots in birds (Science)
- Putting the breaks on meiosis (Science)
- Evolutionary stability of recombination in yeast (Science)
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