Recombination rate plasticity: revealing mechanisms by design.

ABSTRACT: For over a century, scientists have known that meiotic recombination rates can vary considerably among individuals, and that environmental conditions can modify recombination rates relative to the background. A variety of external and intrinsic factors such as temperature, age, sex and starvation can elicit 'plastic' responses in recombination rate. The influence of recombination rate plasticity on genetic diversity of the next generation has interesting and important implications for how populations evolve. Further, many questions remain regarding the mechanisms and molecular processes that contribute to recombination rate plasticity. Here, we review 100 years of experimental work on recombination rate plasticity conducted in Drosophila melanogaster We categorize this work into four major

SUBMITTER: Stevison LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5698621 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature