Unprecedented female mutation bias in the aye-aye, a highly unusual lemur from Madagascar.

Every mammal studied to date has been found to have a male mutation bias: male parents transmit more de novo mutations to offspring than female parents, contributing increasingly more mutations with age. Although male-biased mutation has been studied for more than 75 years, its causes are still deba...

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Main Authors: Richard J Wang, Yadira Peña-García, Muthuswamy Raveendran, R Alan Harris, Thuy-Trang Nguyen, Marie-Claude Gingras, Yifan Wu, Lesette Perez, Anne D Yoder, Joe H Simmons, Jeffrey Rogers, Matthew W Hahn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2025-02-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003015
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