Somatic drift and rapid loss of heterozygosity suggest small effective population size of stem cells and high somatic mutation rate in asexual planaria
Hosseinali Asgharian, Joseph Dunham, Paul Marjoram, Sergey V. Nuzhdin
The paper estimates the effective population size and somatic mutation rate in asexual planarians using population genetic models and pedigree data.
bioRxiv · Jan 29, 2020 · PreprintGenetics