Reproductive longevity predicts mutation rates in primates
G. W. C. Thomas, R. J. Wang, A. Puri, R. A. Harris, M. Raveendran, D. Hughes, S. Murali, L. Williams, H. Doddapaneni, D. Muzny, R. Gibbs, C. Abee, M. R. Galinski, K. C. Worley, J. Rogers, , M. W. Hahn
The paper shows that paternal age determines de novo mutation rates in owl monkeys and proposes a model linking reproductive longevity to mutation rates across primates.
bioRxiv · May 21, 2018Evolutionary Biology