Chaowei Zhang

2 weeks ago | nature.com | Chaowei Zhang |Kerry Reid |Mikkel Heide Schierup |Hongbo Wang |Ulrika Candolin

AbstractAs a fundamentally important genetic parameter and evolutionary force, germline mutation rates have many applications in evolutionary biology. However, accurate estimates of de novo mutation (DNM) rates are still relatively scarce, even for extensively studied evolutionary biology models. We estimated DNM rates for the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus), the ‘supermodel’ of ecology and evolutionary biology.