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Reproductive longevity predicts mutation rates in primates

2018-05-21

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Mutation rates vary between species across several orders of magnitude, with larger organisms having the highest per-generation mutation rates. Hypotheses for this pattern typically invoke physiological or population-genetic constraints imposed on the molecular machinery preventing mutations 1 . However, continuing germline cell division in multicellular eukaryotes means that organisms with longer generation time...

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Literature Corpus work: b575ea26-59bf-5b2e-b6e6-7494a8591d3a
DOI: 10.1101/327627

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