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ArticleGenome research2025

Unexpectedly low recombination rates and presence of hotspots in termite genomes.

Turid Everitt, Tilman Rönneburg, Daniel Elsner, Anna Olsson, Yuanzhen Liu, Tuuli Larva, Judith Korb, Matthew T Webster

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  1. Genome Evolution in Social Insects.Genome biology and evolution · 2026
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Turid Everitt *Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, 751 23 Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-6273-4507
Tilman Rönneburg *Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, 751 23 Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-2929-0585
Daniel ElsnerEvolutionary Biology and Ecology, University of Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany.
Anna OlssonMedical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, 751 23 Uppsala, Sweden.
Yuanzhen LiuMedical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, 751 23 Uppsala, Sweden.
Tuuli LarvaMedical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, 751 23 Uppsala, Sweden.
Judith KorbEvolutionary Biology and Ecology, University of Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9577-9376
Matthew T WebsterMedical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, 751 23 Uppsala, Sweden; matthew.webster@imbim.uu.se.ORCID 0000-0003-1141-2863

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Abstract

Meiotic recombination is a fundamental evolutionary process that facilitates adaptation and the removal of deleterious genetic variation. Social Hymenoptera exhibit some of the highest recombination rates among metazoans, whereas high recombination rates have not been found among nonsocial species from this insect order. It is unknown whether elevated recombination rates are a ubiquitous feature of all social insects. In many metazoan taxa, recombination is mainly restricted to hotspots a few kilobases in length. However, little is known about the prevalence of recombination hotspots in insect genomes. Here we infer recombination rate and its fine-scale variation across the genomes of two social species from the insect order Blattodea: the termites

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Genome, InsectIsopteraRecombination, GeneticAnimalsEvolution, MolecularLinkage Disequilibrium

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