Mode and tempo of microsatellite length change in a malaria parasite mutation accumulation experiment
M. McDew-White, X. Li, S. C. Nkhoma, S. Nair, I. Cheeseman, T. J. C. Anderson
This study quantifies microsatellite mutation rates in malaria parasites, finding low rates influenced by repeat motif and array length, with most mutations involving multiple repeat changes.
bioRxiv · Feb 25, 2019Evolutionary Biology