In many organisms, meiotic crossover recombination is suppressed near the extreme ends of chromosomes. Here, we show that multiple, often chromosome-specific, suppressive mechanisms with differing ranges contribute to the consistently low enrichment of recombination-promoting axis proteins and the downregulation of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) within 20 kb of telomeres in ...
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