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

doi:10.1186/1741-7007-10-30

BMC Biol. 2012; 10: 30.

Published online 2012 April 18. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-10-30

PMCID: PMC3349525

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

Lin Wang¹ and Zewei Luo^1,²

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

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

Corresponding author.

Lin Wang: wanglin/at/fudan.edu.cn; Zewei Luo: z.luo/at/bam.ac.uk

Received November 25, 2011; Accepted April 18, 2012.

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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

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