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Caiti Smukowski Heil
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Evolutionary geneticist studying recombination, hybridization, and domestication in yeast! Asst. Professor at NC State 🔬🧬🍞 👦👦🐈🐈 she/her
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Recombination plays an important role in the distribution of introgression in the generations following hybridization in lots of species 🦋🌽🐟👩‍🔬 We use the awesome power of yeast to WGS the meiotic products of two crosses, one with introgression and one without, and call crossovers and non-crossovers

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We find that heterozygous introgression significantly changes the recombination landscape. Crossovers are decreased and non-crossovers are increased in regions of heterozygous introgression (similar to what is seen in heterozygous inversions!)

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Caiti Smukowski Heil
@caitismuheil.bsky.social
Evolutionary geneticist studying recombination, hybridization, and domestication in yeast! Asst. Professor at NC State 🔬🧬🍞 👦👦🐈🐈 she/her
132 followers136 following8 posts