I am very pleased to share with the mastodon community the first part of my PhD work:

High prevalence of Prdm9-independent recombination hotspots in placental #mammals

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.17.567540v1

This work was done in collaboration with @djivanprentout Alexandre Laverré, Théo Tricou and @duret_lbbe. (1/8)

#Recombination #PopGen #Evolution #gBGC #PRDM9

High prevalence of Prdm9-independent recombination hotspots in placental mammals

In many mammals, recombination events are concentrated into hotspots directed by a sequence specific DNA-binding protein named Prdm9.

^bioRxiv