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Genetics, Vol. 167, 1143-1153, July 2004, Copyright © 2004
doi:10.1534/genetics.103.025080
Alleles of the Hotspot cog Are Codominant in Effect on Recombination in the his-3 Region of Neurospora
P. Jane Yeadon, F. J. Bowring and D. E. A. Catcheside1
School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, 5001 Australia
1 Corresponding author: School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia, 5001 Australia.
E-mail: david.catcheside{at}flinders.edu.au
There are two naturally occurring functional alleles of the recombination hotspot cog, which is located 3.5 kb from the his-3 locus of Neurospora crassa. The presence of the cog+ allele in a cross significantly increases recombination in the his-3 region compared to a cross homozygous for the cog allele. Data obtained shortly after discovery of cog+ suggested that it was fully dominant to cog. However, a dominant cog+ conflicts with observations of hotspots in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe, in which recombination is initiated independently of homolog interactions, and suggests recombination mechanisms may differ in Neurospora and yeast. We present evidence that cog alleles are codominant in effect on both allelic recombination in his-3 and crossing over between loci flanking his-3. In addition, we show that genetic background variation has at least a twofold effect on allelic recombination. We speculate that variation in genetic background, together with the complexities of recombination in crosses bearing close mutant alleles, accounts for the previous conclusion that cog+ is dominant to cog.
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