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ArticleG3 (Bethesda, Md.)2024

Male-biased recombination at chromosome ends in a songbird revealed by precisely mapping crossover positions.

Hongkai Zhang, Max Lundberg, Suvi Ponnikas, Dennis Hasselquist, Bengt Hansson

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Hongkai ZhangDepartment of Biology, Lund University, 22362 Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-7371-9612
Max LundbergDepartment of Biology, Lund University, 22362 Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-1895-3622
Suvi PonnikasDepartment of Biology, University of Oulu, 90570 Oulu, Finland.ORCID 0000-0003-3526-2118
Dennis HasselquistDepartment of Biology, Lund University, 22362 Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-0056-6616
Bengt HanssonDepartment of Biology, Lund University, 22362 Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-6694-8169

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Erik Philip-Sörensen's FoundationEuropean Research CouncilEuropean Union's Horizon 2020Jörgen Lindström's FoundationKungliga Fysiografiska SällskapetNational Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in SwedenOlle Engkvist's FoundationSwedish Research Council 2016-04391Wenner-Gren Foundations
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Abstract

Recombination plays a crucial role in evolution by generating novel haplotypes and disrupting linkage between genes, thereby enhancing the efficiency of selection. Here, we analyze the genomes of 12 great reed warblers (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) in a 3-generation pedigree to identify precise crossover positions along the chromosomes. We located more than 200 crossovers and found that these were highly concentrated toward the telomeric ends of the chromosomes. Apart from this major pattern in the recombination landscape, we found significantly higher frequencies of crossovers in genic compared with intergenic regions, and in exons compared with introns. Moreover, while the number of recombination events was similar between the sexes, the crossovers were located significantly closer to the ends of paternal compared with maternal chromosomes. In conclusion, our study of the great reed warbler revealed substantial variation in crossover frequencies within chromosomes, with a distinct bias toward the sub-telomeric regions, particularly on the paternal side. These findings emphasize the importance of thoroughly screening the entire length of chromosomes to characterize the recombination landscape and uncover potential sex-biases in recombination.

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Chromosome MappingCrossing Over, GeneticSongbirdsAnimalsChromosomesFemaleMaleRecombination, GeneticTelomerecrossovergreat reed warblermale biasrecombinationSNPsongbirdsub-telomeric regions

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PMID38985659
PMCPMC11373659

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