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Evolutionary genetics

the puzzle that recombination hotspots should destroy themselves through biased gene conversion, yet they persist.

In evolutionary genetics, hotspot conversion paradox refers to the puzzle that recombination hotspots should destroy themselves through biased gene conversion, yet they persist. This meaning comes from Boulton (1997) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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References

Boulton, A., Myers, R. S., & Redfield, R. J. (1997). The hotspot conversion paradox and the evolution of meiotic recombination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 94(15), 8058-8063. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.94.15.8058

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