Zach B. Hancock | Evolution of the Mutation Rate @talkpopgen | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Why does the mutation rate vary across organisms? In this video, I review a recent paper exploring the evolution of the germline mutation rate in vertebrates and provide explanations for the patterns that they find.

Bergeron et al. (2023) Evolution of the germline mutation rate across vertebrates. Nature, 615: 285-291. nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05752-y