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Figure 4

From: Causes and consequences of crossing-over evidenced via a high-resolution recombinational landscape of the honey bee

Figure 4

Relationship between recombination and GC-content. (A) GC content variance around CO breakpoints (blue dots and line). The window 0 on the x-axis is the GC content of the breakpoints and the negative and positive values represent the distance away from the breakpoints. Each of these windows is defined as 2 kb sequence and the GC content is calculated for each window. The red dots and line are one of the GC content random samples simulated like the numbers of CO breakpoints (blue dot and line). After 10,000 repeats, not one of random samples is as extreme as the observed (blue line) (P <0.0001). (B) Relationship between recombination and GC content. When the chromosomes are dissected into 10 kb non-overlapping regions, recombination rate (cM/Mb) and GC content can be obtained for each of them. After the bins are sorted by the GC content, the windows are divided into 31 groups based on GC content (approximately 20% to 51%, 1% interval), and the average (and s.e.m.) recombination rates reported for each group.

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