The recombination landscape of the barn owl, from families to populations.

ABSTRACT: Homologous recombination is a meiotic process that generates diversity along the genome and interacts with all evolutionary forces. Despite its importance, studies of recombination landscapes are lacking due to methodological limitations and limited data. Frequently used approaches include linkage mapping based on familial data that provides sex-specific broad-scale estimates of realized recombination and inferences based on population linkage disequilibrium that reveal a more fine-scale resolution of the recombination landscape, albeit dependent on the effective population size and the selective forces acting on the population. In this study, we use a combination of these 2 methods to elucidate the recombination landscape for the Afro-European barn owl (Tyto alba). We find subtle differen

SUBMITTER: Topaloudis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11708917 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature