Somatic genetic drift and multi-level selection in modular species
L. Yu, C. Bostrom, T. Bayer, S. Franzenburg, T. Dagan, T. B. H. Reusch
The paper investigates somatic genetic variation in modular species, finding that clonal growth leads to genetically differentiated modules with varying levels of selection.
bioRxiv · Nov 7, 2019Evolutionary Biology