Evolution of the recombination regulator PRDM9 in minke whales

• Published in: BMC Genomics
• Main Authors: Damm, E., Ullrich, K., Amos, W., Odenthal-Hesse, L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Antarctic; Krab; Pacific; Antarc*; minke whale; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000A-1441-6; http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000A-1444-3

We explored the structure and variability of the Prdm9 gene, which codes for the PRDM9 protein, in samples of the minke whales from the Atlantic, Pacific and Southern Oceans. The PRDM9 protein controls the reshuffling of parental genomes in most metazoans and we show that minke whale possess all the...