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Mutation-rate plasticity and the germline of unicellular organisms

The mutation rate is a fundamental factor in evolutionary genetics. Recently, mutation rates were found to be strongly reduced at high density in a wide range of unicellular organisms, prokaryotic and eukaryotic. Independently, cell division was found to become more asymmetrical at increasing densit...

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Autores principales: Aanen, Duur K., Debets, Alfons J. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6532511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31039713
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0128