Evolution of the mutational process under relaxed selection in Caenorhabditis elegans
A. S. Saxena, M. P. Salomon, C. Matsuba, S.-D. Yeh, C. F. Baer
This study examines mutation rate variation in Caenorhabditis elegans mutation accumulation lines, finding that base-substitution rates vary with recombination and GC content, while indel rates are higher in high-fitness lines.
bioRxiv · Oct 29, 2018Evolutionary Biology