Rates of evolution differ between cell types identified by single-cell RNAseq in threespine stickleback
Maria L. Rodgers, Swapna Subramanian, Lauren E. Fuess, Wan He, Sidney Redner, Andrea J. Roth-Monzón, Daniel L. Jeffries, Martine Seignon, Kathryn Milligan‐McClellan, Rebecca Lyn Carrier, Natalie C. Steinel, Daniel I. Bolnick
The paper uses single-cell RNAseq and population genomic data to show that immune cell types have faster evolutionary divergence in their characteristic genes compared to non-immune cell types.
Molecular Ecology · Sep 28, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology