Einat Hazkani-Covo's new paper in PLoS Genetics


NESCent post-doc, Einat Hazkani-Covo, has published a paper on her research on the role of numts (bits of mitochondrial DNA inserted in the nuclear genome) in DNA double strand break repair and the evolutionary implications of this process.


Hazkani-Covo, E. and Covo, S. (2008) Numt-Mediated Double-Strand Break Repair Mitigates Deletions during Primate Genome Evolution. PLoS Genet 4(10): e1000237. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000237

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