However, recombination did not accelerate adaptation during either directional or fluctuating selection for geotaxis. Heritable variation in fitness is the fuel of adaptive evolution, ...

Figure 1: Determining recombination locations. Recombination maps partitioned into 10-kb bins were calculated for each sex. For subsequent investigations, we excluded the X chromosome and 5-Mb ...

Many aspects of meiotic recombination, such as its initiation via Spo11-generated DSBS, are highly conserved throughout evolution. We are examining the mechanisms that control the distribution of ...

Unlike its DNA repair role in somatic cells, homologous recombination has a distinct role in meiosis in ensuring proper chromosome segregation. In yeast, an early step of the meiotic program is the ...

Genetic recombination is the transmission-genetic process by which the combinations of alleles observed at different loci in two parental individuals become shuffled in offspring individuals. In ...

Knowing when recombination occurs is crucial for understanding the evolutionary lineage of a sequence of the virus. Recombination can complicate the process of tracing back the phylogenetic tree of a ...

Genetic recombination is vital to natural selection, yet some species display far more crossover than others. Scientists have discovered a gene in fruit flies that is responsible for the evolution ...

Recombination, in contrast, is rife in coronaviruses. Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center led by virologist Mark Denison recently studied how things go awry during replication in ...

Homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) identifies a clinically relevant subgroup of patients with pancreatic cancer (pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma). However, clinically relevant HRD is still ...

Researchers led by the University of Rochester claim to have increased the photoresponsivity of a lead-halide perovskite for solar cell applications by 250%. They created a perovskite film with a ...

Every original creation is an act of generative recombination. Why should the use of AI be held to a different standard?

Five is a crowd Physicists have shown how interactions between five atoms can create a tetramer and a single free atom. (Courtesy: Shutterstock) Five-body recombination, in which five identical atoms ...