One Mutation, Two Evolutionary Changes/ Curr. Biol., Oct. 18, 2018 (Vol. 28, Issue 21)

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Nagy et al. show that several species-specific traits can co-evolve all at once due to one mutation of a single letter in the DNA.

Check out the paper at http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)31131-X.

O. Nagy, I. Nuez, R. Savisaar, A.E. Peluffo, A. Yassin, M. Lang, D.L. Stern, D.R. Matute, J.R. David, and V. Courtier-Orgogozo (2018). Correlated Evolution of Two Copulatory Organs via a Single cis-Regulatory Nucleotide Change. Curr. Biol. 28.

And read more great research at http://www.cell.com/current-biology/home.

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