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Demographic analysis of cyanobacteria based on the mutation rates estimated from an ancient ice core.
Heredity - 1 Jun 2018
Segawa Takahiro, Takeuchi Nozomu, Fujita Koji, Aizen Vladimir B, Willerslev Eske, Yonezawa Takahiro
Abstract excerpt
Despite the crucial role of cyanobacteria in various ecosystems, little is known about their evolutionary histories, especially microevolutionary dynamics, because of the lack of knowledge regarding their mutation rates. Here we directly estimated cyanobacterial mutation rates based on ancient DNA analyses of ice core samples collected from Kyrgyz Republic that dates back to ~12,500 cal years before present. We...
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