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ArticleFrontiers in genetics2021

Effect of Temperature and Maternal Age on Recombination Rate in Cattle.

Botong Shen, Ellen Freebern, Jicai Jiang, Christian Maltecca, John B Cole, George E Liu, Li Ma

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Article in Frontiers in genetics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. An Increase in Male Recombination Rate With Age in Dairy Cattle Is Heritable and Polygenic.Journal of animal breeding and genetics = Zeitschrift fur Tierzuchtung und Zuchtungsbiologie · 2026
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Botong ShenDepartment of Animal and Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, United States.
Ellen FreebernDepartment of Animal and Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, United States.
Jicai JiangDepartment of Animal and Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, United States.
Christian MalteccaDepartment of Animal Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States.
John B ColeAnimal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, BARC, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD, United States.
George E LiuAnimal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, BARC, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD, United States.
Li MaDepartment of Animal and Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, United States.
University of Maryland, College Park · USAgricultural Research Service · USNorth Carolina State University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Meiotic recombination is a fundamental biological process that facilitates meiotic division and promotes genetic diversity. Recombination is phenotypically plastic and affected by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The effect of maternal age on recombination rates has been characterized in a wide range of species, but the effect's direction remains inconclusive. Additionally, the characterization of temperature effects on recombination has been limited to model organisms. Here we seek to comprehensively determine the impact of genetic and environmental factors on recombination rate in dairy cattle. Using a large cattle pedigree, we identified maternal recombination events within 305,545 three-generation families. By comparing recombination rate between parents of different ages, we found a quadratic trend between maternal age and recombination rate in cattle. In contrast to either an increasing or decreasing trend in humans, cattle recombination rate decreased with maternal age until 65 months and then increased afterward. Combining recombination data with temperature information from public databases, we found a positive correlation between environmental temperature during fetal development of offspring and recombination rate in female parents. Finally, we fitted a full recombination rate model on all related factors, including genetics, maternal age, and environmental temperatures. Based on the final model, we confirmed the effect of maternal age and environmental temperature during fetal development of offspring on recombination rate with an estimated heritability of 10% (

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cattlegeneticsmaternal agerecombinationtemperature

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