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Somatic maintenance impacts the evolution of mutation rate

BACKGROUND: The evolution of multi-cellular animals has produced a conspicuous trend toward increased body size. This trend has introduced at least two novel problems: an expected elevated risk of somatic disorders, such as cancer, and declining evolvability due to generally reduced population size,...

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Published in:BMC Evol Biol
Main Authors: Rozhok, Andrii, DeGregori, James
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2019
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6708161/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31443631
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1496-y
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