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Male germline vulnerability to DNA damage causes sex-biased mutation

2025-08-24

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In many vertebrates the male germline mutation rate is higher than that of females, so-called male mutation bias, the causes of which are central to numerous molecular evolution debates including the relationship between life history traits and the mutation rate and the cause of the generation time effect. The male bias was classically considered a consequence of the higher number of cell divisions in the male ger...

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Literature Corpus work: 6673e0a2-78bf-58da-9176-8cfab899e96a
DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.20.671249

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