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Temperature, stress and spontaneous mutation in Caenorhabditis briggsae and Caenorhabditis elegans.
Biology letters - 23 Feb 2013
Matsuba Chikako, Ostrow Dejerianne G, Salomon Matthew P, Tolani Amit, Baer Charles F
Abstract excerpt
Mutation rate often increases with environmental temperature, but establishing causality is complicated. Asymmetry between physiological stress and deviation from the optimal temperature means that temperature and stress are often confounded. We allowed mutations to accumulate in two species of Caenorhabditis for approximately 100 generations at 18°C and for approximately 165 generations at 26°C; 26°C is...
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