Highly mismatch-tolerant homology testing by RecA could explain how homology length affects recombination

• Mara Prentiss ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: prentiss@fas.harvard.edu

  Affiliation Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7199-8945

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• Dianzhuo Wang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jonathan Fu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4388-9546

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• Chantal Prévost,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France

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• Veronica Godoy-Carter,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Nancy Kleckner,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Claudia Danilowicz

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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