Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Gene conversion facilitates the adaptive evolution of self-resistance in highly toxic newts
K. L. Gendreau, A. D. Hornsby, M. Hague, J. W. McGlothlin
This study shows gene conversion helped newts evolve resistance to their own toxin by coordinating changes across multiple sodium channel genes.
DOI 10.1093/molbev/msab182