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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: DNA Repair (Amst). 2019 Jul 8;81:102648. doi: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2019.102648

Table 1.

Chromosomal features of four well-studied speciesa.

Species S. pombeb S. cerevisiaec A. thalianad M. musculuse
Approximate genome size (Mb) 12.5 12.1 135 2730
Number of chromosomes (haploid)f 3 16 5 20
Approximate number of crossovers per cell 40 85 10 25
Approximate number of DSBs per cell 60 160 200 200 – 300
a

Species for which genome-wide distributions of DSBs have been determined by analysis of Spo11-oligos (Figure 3).

b

[33]

c

[32]

d

[35]

e

[34]

f

Number of chromosomes in the haploid genome.