Sex-specific landscapes of crossover and non-crossover recombination in coppery titi monkeys ( Plecturocebus cupreus )

ABSTRACT Along with germline mutations, meiotic recombination plays a fundamental role in shaping genetic diversity and thus directly influences a species’ potential adaptive response to environmental change, amongst other features. Despite the recombination landscape being of central importance for a variety of questions in molecular evolution, the genome-wide distribution and frequency of recombination remains to be elucidated in many non-human primate species. Utilizing novel high-coverage genomic data from three multi-sibling families, we here provide the first estimates of the rates and patterns of crossover and non-crossover recombination in coppery titi monkeys ( Plecturocebus cupreus ) — a socially…

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