Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Mutability of mononucleotide repeats, not oxidative stress, explains the discrepancy between laboratory-accumulated mutations and the natural allele-frequency spectrum in C. elegans
M. Rajaei, A. S. Saxena, L. M. Johnson…·C. F. Baer
The study shows that differences in mutation spectra between lab and natural C. elegans populations are due to mononucleotide repeat mutability, not oxidative stress.
DOI 10.1101/gr.275372.121