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SUBMITTER: Besnard F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7556874 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Besnard Fabrice F Picao-Osorio Joao J Dubois Clément C Félix Marie-Anne MA
eLife 20200827
The rapid evolution of a trait in a clade of organisms can be explained by the sustained action of natural selection or by a high mutational variance, that is the propensity to change under spontaneous mutation. The causes for a high mutational variance are still elusive. In some cases, fast evolution depends on the high mutation rate of one or few loci with short tandem repeats. Here, we report on the fastest evolving cell fate among vulva precursor cells in <i>Caenorhabditis</i> nematodes, tha ...[more]