A larger target leads to faster evolution

Bing Yang; Scott A Rifkin

doi:10.7554/eLife.62689

eLife (Oct 2020)

A larger target leads to faster evolution

Bing Yang,
Scott A Rifkin

Affiliations

Bing Yang: ORCiD; Section of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, United States
Scott A Rifkin: ORCiD; Section of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, United States

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.62689
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9

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The speed at which a cell fate decision in nematode worms evolves is due to the number of genes that control the decision, rather than to a high mutation rate.

Published in eLife

ISSN: 2050-084X (Online)
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine; Science: Biology (General)
Website: https://elifesciences.org

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