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Intra-specific evidence to support the drift-barrier hypothesis of mutation rate evolution
Chaowei Zhang, Hongbo Wang, Kerry Reid…·Juha Merilä
The paper tests the drift-barrier hypothesis by analyzing mutation rates in nine-spined stickleback populations, finding a negative correlation between mutation rates and effective population size.
DOI 10.64898/2026.07.31.741990