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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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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 |