title: A note on the correlation between heterozygosity and recombination rate.
abstract: Mechanisms responsible for the correlation between heterozygosity and recombination rate have been thought to be background selection and selective sweep. In addition to these two, diversity enhancing selection and/or gene conversion is suggested to be contributing to the correlation, by surveying some examples of highly polymorphic loci that tend to locate in high-recombination regions.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ohta
mesh_terms: D005785:Gene Conversion; D006579:Heterozygote; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D012641:Selection, Genetic