Gene conversion, recombination nodules, and the initiation of meiotic synapsis
Adelaide T. C. Carpenter(University of California San Diego)
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Abstract
Abstract The nature of the relationship between the two types of meiotic recombination outcomes, exchange (crossing‐over) and simple gene conversion, has been debated for years. I here propose that these two types of events are not necessarily causally related and hypothesize that the primary role of events detected as simple gene conversion is in the recognition of homology during synapsis.