FIG. 8.

Properties of crossover junctions and splinting templates. (A) Distribution of junctional microidentity lengths. Black bars represent identities observed at simple recombinants' crossover junctions; hatched bars are complex recombinants' junctional microidentities; und represents junctions for which identity lengths were not determined because a template segment was not identified. (B) Splinting (3°) templates' lengths. Hatched bars indicate minimal template lengths for inserts with unidentified templates (e.g., the length of the insert, whereas for identified templates most included flanking microidentity residues); black bars represent assigned template segments. (Bottom) An expanded view of template length distribution for shorter insert segments shown at top.