ReviewMolecular ecology2025
Mixed Outcomes in Recombination Rates After Domestication: Revisiting Theory and Data.
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- High‑resolution recombination landscape in Iranian native chicken ecotypes: Elevated hotspot density and candidate genes for heat and drought adaptation.Poultry science · 2026Article
- Evolution of crop phenotypic spaces through domestication.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Impacts of temperature on recombination rate and meiotic success in thermotolerant and cold-tolerant yeast species.Heredity · 2025Article
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The process of domestication has altered many phenotypes. Selection on these phenotypes has long been hypothesised to indirectly select for increases in the genome-wide recombination rate. This hypothesis is potentially consistent with theory on the evolution of the recombination rate, but empirical support has been unclear. We review relevant theory, lab-based experiments, and data comparing recombination rates in wild progenitors and their domesticated counterparts. We utilise population sequencing data and a deep learning method to infer genome-wide recombination rates for new comparisons of chicken/red junglefowl, sheep/mouflon, and goat/bezoar. We find evidence of increased recombination in domesticated goats compared to bezoars but more mixed results in chicken and generally decreased recombination in domesticated sheep compared to mouflon. Our results add to a growing body of literature in plants and animals that finds no consistent evidence of an increase in genome-wide recombination with domestication.
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