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Environmental stresses can alleviate the average deleterious effect of mutations

BACKGROUND: Fundamental questions in evolutionary genetics, including the possible advantage of sexual reproduction, depend critically on the effects of deleterious mutations on fitness. Limited existing experimental evidence suggests that, on average, such effects tend to be aggravated under enviro...

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Autores principales: Kishony, Roy, Leibler, Stanislas
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC193686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12775217