Science news articles about 'recombination events'

... will appear in the Journal of Experimental Medicine and has been released online. "The implication that recombination events are selected by immune responses identifies a new mechanism for the virus ...

... fluoresced. And not just at one point—on average, the authors counted, centromeres had undergone 15 recombination events. This is about six times the rate of recombination as that seen for an equal ...

... phenomenon previously only known to occur between crossovers - that makes it unlikely for two recombination events to happen in close proximity. The fundamental principles of recombination are likely ...

... than arising spontaneously in individual cells. Since the type of mutation being studied (in this case a recombination event) occurs at a rate on par with other types of mutations, "it is as if we ...

... harmless wild grass infecting viruses. This chance recombination event could be the reason MSV has become such a serious ... years ago, two grass adapted MSVs recombined to produce a new "wide-host range" ...

... in mice, without causing a SARS-like disease. The studies suggest that a very simple recombination event may have been enough to allow a coronavirus to move from one species to another, Denison said ...

... Mu Transposon Insertion Sites and Meiotic Recombination Events Co-localize with Epigenetic Marks ... finding that both Mu insertions and meiotic recombination sites concentrate in genomic regions decorated ...