Fig. 1: Sex-specific genetic maps and associated recombination rates along the X chromosome.
From: Genetic architecture of individual variation in recombination rate on the X chromosome in cattle
a Sex-specific genetic maps of the X chromosome; b, c recombination rate per Mb along the X chromosome estimated per sex. Recombination rate was first estimated in 1-Mb successive nonoverlapping bins. The blue and red loess smoothed lines were fit for males and females with a span parameter of 0.5 and 2.5, respectively, using the ggplot2 (v.3.2.1) package in R (v.3.4.4). In males, we represented the rates only for the PAR. The black circle represents the position of the centromere (according to flanking microsatellites and BAC libraries reported in Amaral et al. (2002) and Frohlich et al. (2017)), whereas the vertical line indicates the limit of the PAR.
