Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Lagging strand encoding promotes adaptive evolution
C. Merrikh, L. Harris, S. Mangiameli, H. Merrikh
The paper investigates whether lagging strand genes evolve faster due to replication-transcription conflicts and finds convergent mutations are enriched in these genes, suggesting adaptive evolution.
DOI 10.1101/2020.06.23.167650