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Ancient and Modern Genomes Reveal Microsatellites Maintain a Dynamic Equilibrium Through Deep Time.
Genome biology and evolution - 2 Mar 2024
McComish Bennet J, Charleston Michael A, Parks Matthew, Baroni Carlo, Salvatore Maria Cristina, Li Ruiqiang, Zhang Guojie, Millar Craig D, Holland Barbara R, Lambert David M
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Microsatellites are widely used in population genetics, but their evolutionary dynamics remain poorly understood. It is unclear whether microsatellite loci drift in length over time. This is important because the mutation processes that underlie these important genetic markers are central to the evolutionary models that employ microsatellites. We identify more than 27 million microsatellites using a novel and...
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