Transcript diversity reflects deleterious RNA processing errors shaped by population size in metazoans

• Kai Mi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Bio-X Institutes, Key Laboratory for the Genetics of Developmental and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Ministry of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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• Lili Guan,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Bio-X Institutes, Key Laboratory for the Genetics of Developmental and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Ministry of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Bandhan Sarker,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Bio-X Institutes, Key Laboratory for the Genetics of Developmental and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Ministry of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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• Siliang Song,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Tianjiao Zhou,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Hongliang Yi,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Jianzhi Zhang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jianzhi@umich.edu (JZ); chuanx@sjtu.edu.cn (CX)

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Chuan Xu

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jianzhi@umich.edu (JZ); chuanx@sjtu.edu.cn (CX)

  Affiliations Bio-X Institutes, Key Laboratory for the Genetics of Developmental and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Ministry of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Environment on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Ministry of Education, Lhasa, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5897-9181

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