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ArticleNature2023

Evolution of the germline mutation rate across vertebrates.

Lucie A Bergeron, Søren Besenbacher, Jiao Zheng, Panyi Li, Mads Frost Bertelsen, Benoit Quintard, Joseph I Hoffman, Zhipeng Li, Judy St Leger, Changwei Shao and 4 more

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Article in Nature, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 208 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

208 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Lucie A BergeronVillum Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. lucie.a.bergeron@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1877-1690
Søren BesenbacherDepartment of Molecular Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1455-1738
Jiao ZhengBGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.
Panyi LiBGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.
Mads Frost BertelsenCopenhagen Zoo, Frederiksberg, Denmark.
Benoit QuintardParc Zoologique et Botanique de Mulhouse, Mulhouse, France.
Joseph I HoffmanDepartment of Animal Behaviour, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Zhipeng LiCollege of Animal Science and Technology, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, China.
Judy St LegerDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Changwei ShaoKey Lab of Sustainable Development of Marine Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6953-2203
Josefin StillerVillum Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
M Thomas P GilbertCenter for Evolutionary Hologenomics, The GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5805-7195
Mikkel H SchierupBioinformatics Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5028-1790
Guojie ZhangVillum Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. guojiezhang@zju.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6860-1521

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The germline mutation rate determines the pace of genome evolution and is an evolving parameter itself

Indexed as

Evolution, MolecularGerm-Line MutationMutation RateVertebratesAnimalsBirdsFemaleFishesMaleMammalsReptiles

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PMID36859541
PMCPMC9995274

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