Ann Gauger's Response to My Themelios Review

[Patrick]

@T_aquaticus

I would be interested to see if @Agauger could explain why she thinks recombination rates and chromosomal rearrangements should occur at any constant or predictable rate. We expect substitution mutations to tick along at a reasonably constant rate, but I haven’t seen anyone ever claim that chromosomal rearrangements and large recombination events should behave the same as substitution mutations within the auspices of neutral theory.

Are you asking her because she is a practicing scientist doing research in this area? Or because she is a paid staffer of DI?