Mystery of the mutagenic male

Laurence D. Hurst () and Hans Ellegren ()
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Laurence D. Hurst: University of Bath
Hans Ellegren: Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University

Nature, 2002, vol. 420, issue 6914, 365-366

Abstract: Old fathers are the source of more genetic mutations in their offspring than either young fathers or mothers of any age. But the apparently most plausible explanation for this effect might not hold.

Date: 2002
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