Principles of genome evolution in the Drosophila melanogaster species group.

That closely related species often differ by chromosomal inversions was discovered by Sturtevant and Plunkett in 1926. Our knowledge of how these inversions originate is still very limited, although a prevailing view is that they are facilitated by ectopic recombination events between inverted repet...

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Main Authors: José M Ranz, Damien Maurin, Yuk S Chan, Marcin von Grotthuss, LaDeana W Hillier, John Roote, Michael Ashburner, Casey M Bergman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-06-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050152