Mutability of mononucleotide repeats, not oxidative stress, explains the discrepancy between laboratory-accumulated mutations and the natural allele-frequency spectrum in C. elegans

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Figure 4.
Figure 4.

Base-substitution spectra. (AC) MA lines; (DF) wild isolate private alleles (blue) and MA means (red). (A,D) Whole genome; (B,E) nonmononucleotide sequence; (C,F) mononucleotide sequence. Error bars, one SEM.

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  1. Genome Res. 31: 1602-1613

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