Low spontaneous mutation rate in a complex multicellular eukaryote with a haploid-diploid life cycle
M. Krasovec, A. P. Lipinska, S. M. Coelho
The paper estimates the mutation rate in Ectocarpus, a brown algae with a haploid-diploid life cycle, finding it to be unusually low for a complex multicellular eukaryote.
bioRxiv · May 13, 2022Evolutionary Biology