Karyotypes and recombination patterns of the Common Swift (Apus apus Linnaeus, 1758) and Eurasian Hobby (Falco subbuteo Linnaeus, 1758)

Abstract Background Meiotic recombination is an important source of genetic variability. Studies on mammals demonstrate a substantial interspecies variation in overall recombination rate, which is dependent mainly on chromosome (2n) and chromosome arm number (FN). Bird karyotypes are very conservati...

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Main Authors: Lyubov Malinovskaya, Elena Shnaider, Pavel Borodin, Anna Torgasheva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-02-01
Series:Avian Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40657-018-0096-7