Life-history traits of extinct species may be discoverable, large-scale DNA sequencing data suggest
Monday, June 13, 2011 - 04:30
in Biology & Nature
Large-scale DNA sequencing data have been used to investigate a long-standing evolutionary assumption -- that DNA mutation rates are influenced by such life-history traits as the time between an individual's birth and the birth of its offspring. One of the implications of this research is that life-history traits of extinct species now could be discoverable.
