Mutation rates in whales found to be much higher than previously reported

PHYSorg
Aug 31, 2023, 7:16 pm136 pts
An international team of marine scientists, led by the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and the Center for Coastal Studies in the U.S., has studied the DNA of family groups from four different whale species to estimate their mutation rates. The results revealed much higher mutation rates than…

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