Biased gene conversion
SELECTION AND BIASED GENE CONVERSION IN A MULTIGENE FAMILY: CONSEQUENCES OF INTERALLELIC BIAS AND THRESHOLD SELECTION
... We have extended our previous analyses (WALSH 1985a) on the interaction of selection and biased gene conversion in a multigene family by including bias in conversion be[r] ...
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INTERCHROMOSOMAL BIASED GENE CONVERSION, MUTATION AND SELECTION IN A MULTIGENE FAMILY
... We conclude that interchromosomal biased gene conversion does not gen- erate linkage disequilibrium, which implies that recombination will make no difference to the[r] ...
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Quantifying GC-Biased Gene Conversion in Great Ape Genomes Using Polymorphism-Aware Models
... ABSTRACT As multi-individual population-scale data become available, more complex modeling strategies are needed to quantify genome-wide patterns of nucleotide usage and associated mechanisms of evolution. Recently, the ...
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Population Genomic Analysis Reveals No Evidence for GC-Biased Gene Conversion in Drosophila melanogaster.
... of gene con- version is biased toward GC-bearing alleles in a number of ...GC-biased gene conversion (gBGC) ...nonallelic gene conver- sion increasing GC content for multicopy ...
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Biased gene conversion, copy number, and apparent mutation rate differences within chloroplast and bacterial genomes.
... More generally, differences in the within-organelle fixation probability result in different apparent mutation rates as measured by the expected rate of appearance of [r] ...
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Evidence for GC biased gene conversion as a driver of between lineage differences in avian base composition
... Characterizing the strength of gBGC using a model such as that of Lartillot [24] will enable us to gather more information about the longevity of avian recom- bination hotspots in future studies. In mammals, a mere 20% ...
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GC biased gene conversion conceals the prediction of the nearly neutral theory in avian genomes
... be biased for genes that have gene trees discordant to the species tree if substitution rates are estimated based on the species tree ...of gene tree discordance on our observations, we re- peated ...
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GC-Content Evolution in Mammalian Genomes: The Biased Gene Conversion Hypothesis
... is biased toward, say, G:C pairs, then allele frequencies would evolve in a nonneu- tral fashion: GC/AT heterozygotes would produce a higher proportion of GC gametes than AT gametes, resulting in a higher fixation ...
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ROLE OF BIASED GENE CONVERSION IN ONE-LOCUS NEUTRAL THEORY AND GENOME EVOLUTION
... T h e third section examines under what conditions bias in conversion is important at the genomic level (changing the composition of multigene families) and yet unimportant[r] ...
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Opposing Forces of A/T-Biased Mutations and G/C-Biased Gene Conversions Shape the Genome of the Nematode Pristionchus pacificus
... GC-biased gene conversion in the natural ...GC-biased gene conver- sions in G:C to T:A transversions, but it is unclear why this is the ...
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Understanding the contrasting spatial haplotype patterns of malaria protective β globin polymorphisms
... be examples of soft selective sweeps. The former, which always results from the replacement of glutamic acid by valine at position 6 of the β -globin gene (HBB c. 20 A → T; p. Glu6-Val), is associated with fi ve “ ...
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GENE CONVERSION OF CYSTEINE MUTANTS IN NEUROSPORA
... In such a situation, only a small fraction of the double switches would be so placed as to completely extirpate the mutant region of cys-t, while the removal of cys-c would be [r] ...
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Mechanisms of gene conversion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
... Distinction between conversion in GI and conversion in Gn; the homoallelic/heteroallelic test: T o paraphrase ESPOSITO (1978) in our context, the white sectors of the re[r] ...
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No Accelerated Rate of Protein Evolution in Male-Biased Drosophila pseudoobscura Genes
... D. melanogaster/D. simulans expression data: The D. mela- nogaster genes in our analyses were classified as male, female, or unbiased on the basis of gene expression data for adult males and females reported in P ...
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Enhancer of terminal gene conversion, a New Mutation in Drosophila melanogaster That Induces Telomere Elongation by Gene Conversion
... stability of eukaryotic genomes (Zakian 1996; Pardue et al. 1992a; Kahn et al. 2000; Golubovsky et al. 2001), and DeBaryshe 1999). Specialized mechanisms have although nothing is known about the control of transpo- ...
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Numerical Study of Behavioural Sub-Harmonically Pumped Mixer in a Novel Structure
... flat conversion gain versus different LO ...flattening Conversion gain, increases the noise ...calculated conversion gain for various output ...maximum conversion gain occurs in ZL = 10 + j110 ...
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Phylogenetic Approaches for Quantifying Interlocus Gene Conversion
... Because it ignores homogenization due to IGC, it is not surprising to see that the HKY model sometimes prefers the duplication scenarios where duplication events happen separately in the two ingroup species after they ...
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COINCIDENT GENE CONVERSION DURING MITOSIS IN SACCHAROMYCES
... No. Trp+ Total coincident Culture no. It is, therefore, the class I events that are most indicative of gene conversion. These form the basis of the genotypic analysi[r] ...
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The Conversion Gradient at HIS4 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. II. A Role for Mismatch Repair Directed by Biased Resolution of the Recombinational Intermediate
... Holliday junction accompanied by sliding of the other junction. Within the constraints of our model, the choice of single junction-cutting-with-sliding rather than topoisomerase is a forced move—the recovery of ...
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Biased Signaling in Naturally Occurring Mutations in Human Melanocortin-3 Receptor Gene
... It was suggested that the complexity of feeding behavior and long-lasting effects of melanocortins on energy homeostasis regulation involves the regulation of gene expression [31], especially through mito- ...
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