Mutation rate dynamics reflect ecological change in an emerging zoonotic pathogen
G. Murray, A. J. Balmer, J. Herbert, N. F. Hadijirn, C. L. Kemp, M. Matuszewska, S. Bruchmann, A. S. M. M. Hossain, M. Gottschalk, A. W. Tucker, E. Miller, L. A. Weinert
The paper investigates how mutation rates in Streptococcus suis change with ecology and genome size, finding higher mutation rates in invasive disease isolates and a bias towards G/C to A/T mutations in more pathogenic strains.
bioRxiv · Apr 12, 2021Evolutionary Biology