Rad51/Dmc1 paralogs and mediators oppose DNA helicases to limit hybrid DNA formation and promote crossovers during meiotic recombination

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We are grateful to J ¨urg Kohli, Ramsay J. McFarlane, Paul Russell, Gerald R. Smith, Walter W. Steiner and the National BioResource Project (NBRP) Japan for providing strains and to C. Bryer for technical assistance. FUNDING Wellcome Trust [090767/Z/09/Z to M.C.W.]; College of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Aberdeen [to A.L., in part]. Funding for open access charge: Wellcome TrustPeer reviewedPublisher PD