Mitotic gene conversion can be as important as meiotic conversion in driving genetic variability in plants and other species without early germline segregation

• Xianqing Jia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xianqing Jia, Qijun Zhang, Mengmeng Jiang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2033-2048

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• Qijun Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xianqing Jia, Qijun Zhang, Mengmeng Jiang

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Food Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China

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• Mengmeng Jiang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xianqing Jia, Qijun Zhang, Mengmeng Jiang

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

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• Ju Huang,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Luyao Yu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4703-6185

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• Milton Brian Traw,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3148-2108

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• Dacheng Tian,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

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• Laurence D. Hurst ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bssldh@bath.ac.uk (LDH); sihaiyang@nju.edu.cn (SY)

  Affiliation The Milner Centre for Evolution, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1002-1054

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• Sihai Yang

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bssldh@bath.ac.uk (LDH); sihaiyang@nju.edu.cn (SY)

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

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