El sesgo de mutación refleja la selección natural en Arabidopsis thaliana

J Grey Monroe1,2, Thanvi Srikant3, Pablo Carbonell-Bejerano3

  • 1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. gmonroe@ucdavis.edu.

Nature
|January 13, 2022
PubMed
Resumen

Contrariamente a la teoría evolutiva, las mutaciones en Arabidopsis thaliana no son aleatorias. Los factores epigenómicos sesgan las tasas de mutación, reduciendo las mutaciones dañinas en los genes esenciales y desafiando la visión de la mutación como una fuerza evolutiva sin dirección.

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