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Allometric scaling of somatic mutation and epimutation rates in trees

2024-07-02

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How long-lived trees escape “mutational meltdown” despite centuries of continuous growth remains puzzling. Here we integrate recent studies to show that the yearly rate of somatic mutations and epimutations (μ Y ) scales inversely with generation time (G), and follows the same allometric power law found in mammals (μ Y ∝G -1 ). Deeper insights into the scaling function will permit predictions of somatic (epi)mu...

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Literature Corpus work: 21480dc4-5c70-5d9c-9e41-7b0436cd823c
DOI: 10.1101/2024.07.01.601331

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