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Somatic maintenance impacts the evolution of mutation rate

BACKGROUND: The evolution of multi-cellular animals has produced a conspicuous trend toward increased body size. This trend has introduced at least two novel problems: an expected elevated risk of somatic disorders, such as cancer, and declining evolvability due to generally reduced population size,...

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Autores principales: Rozhok, Andrii, DeGregori, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6708161/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31443631
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1496-y