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Polyploidization increases meiotic recombination frequency in Arabidopsis: a close look at statistical modeling and data analysis

Lin Wang1 and Zewei Luo1,2*

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1 Laboratory of Population & Quantitative Genetics, Institute of Biostatistics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China

2 School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK

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BMC Biology 2012, 10:30 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-10-30

Published: 18 April 2012

Abstract

This paper is a response to Pecinka A, Fang W, Rehmsmeier M, Levy AA, Mittelsten Scheid, O: Polyploidization increases meiotic recombination frequency in Arabidopsis. BMC Biology 2011, 9:24.

See research article at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/9/24 webcite