Direct estimate of the spontaneous mutation rate uncovers the effects of drift and recombination in the chlamydomonas reinhardtii plastid genome

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 800-808

  Ness, Rob W ^a,b   Kraemer, Susanne A ^a   Colegrave, Nick ^a   Keightley, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; chloroplast; effective population size; mutation rate; plastid genome; recombination

Indexed keywords

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMAN; MUTATION ACCUMULATION; MUTATION RATE; PLASTID GENOME; SELECTIVE SWEEP; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; THINKING; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS;

BASE COMPOSITION; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, PLASTID; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84964497601     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msv272     Document Type: Article

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