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The genome represents a central element in understanding biological organization and evolutionary process. Whether comparisons are made between karyotypes of closely related species or genome maps of distantly related organisms, there is clear evidence for the occurrence of chromosomal rearrangements. Differences in genome arrangement must arise through chromosomal mutations, and fixation of new chromosomal variants within populations. Mechanisms dictating the fixation of chromosomal rearrangements are not understood, and consequences of such changes are even less clear. Here, I review several key issues concerning the fixation of chromosomal rearrangements, and present empirical analyses of a newly derived Robertsonian fusion present in Drosophila americana.
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McAllister, B.F. (2000). Fixation of Chromosomal Rerrangements. In: Sankoff, D., Nadeau, J.H. (eds) Comparative Genomics. Computational Biology, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4309-7_4
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