Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Evolution of the mutational process under relaxed selection in Caenorhabditis elegans
A. S. Saxena, M. P. Salomon, C. Matsuba…·C. F. Baer
This study examines mutation rate variation in Caenorhabditis elegans mutation accumulation lines, finding that base-substitution rates vary with recombination and GC content, while indel rates are higher in high-fitness lines.
DOI 10.1093/molbev/msy213