Girard Lab

National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)

Ile-de-France (FR1) · France

ERC-funded
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ERC Starting Grant · 2023

DYNAmics of CrossOver designation

Meiotic crossovers make us unique. Their distribution along chromosomes dictates which traits will be reassorted to create new and unique allele combinations on which selection can act. Early during meiosis, a large number of recombination interactions are initiated all across the genome, but only a few ultimately mature into crossovers. The final number and positions of crossovers are tightly regulated: along each chromosome, crossovers tend to be evenly spaced. This phenomenon, called crossover interference, was discovered in 1914 by Sturtevant and Morgan while drawing the first recombination map in flies. Emergence of spatial patterning requires communication. But how does the crossover…

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