How and Why Chromosome Inversions Evolve

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Mark Kirkpatrick

* E-mail: kirkp@mail.utexas.edu

Affiliation Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States of America

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

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DNA recombination
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