Gamete - type dependent crossover interference levels in a defined region of Caenorhabditis elegans chromosome
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3 ABSTRACT In certain organisms, numbers of crossover events for any single chromosome are limited ('crossover interference'), so that double crossover events are obtained at much lower frequencies than would be expected from the simple product of independent single-crossover events. In this note, we present a number of observations in which we examined interference over a large region of Caenorhabditis elegans chromosome V. Examining this region for multiple crossover events in heteroallelic configurations with limited dimorphism, we observe high levels of crossover interference in oocytes with only partial interference in spermatocytes.
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