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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Aug 10.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Ecol. 2021 Apr 28;30(12):2738–2755. doi: 10.1111/mec.15907

Figure 2. Possible mechanisms creating mutations at inversion breakpoints.

Figure 2

A. An inversion generated through ectopic recombination affects the transcription level of two genes by changing their positions in the genome relative to a promoter. B. An inversion generated through staggered breaks generates a new chimeric gene, while avoiding the loss of the donor genes because of duplication. Grey and black arrows represent genes, with orientation indicated via arrow direction; a, b, c, d represent single strand breaks, resulting in two staggered breaks.