The architecture of intra-organism mutation rate variation in plants

Wang, L; Ji, YL; Hu, YW; Hu, HY; Jia, XQ; Jiang, MM; Zhang, XH; Zhao, LN; Zhang, YC; Jia, YX; Qin, C; Yu, LY; Huang, J; Yang, SH; Hurst, LD; Tian, DC

Yang, SH; Tian, DC (reprint author), Nanjing Univ, Sch Life Sci, State Key Lab Pharmaceut Biotechnol, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Peoples R China.; Hurst, LD (reprint author), Univ Bath, Dept Biol & Biochem, Milner Ctr Evolut, Bath, Avon, England.

PLOS BIOLOGY, 2019; 17 (4):

Abstract

Given the disposability of somatic tissue, selection can favor a higher mutation rate in the early segregating soma than in germline, as seen in some ......

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