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On the potential for extinction by Muller's Ratchet in Caenorhabditis elegans

BACKGROUND: The self-fertile hermaphrodite worm C. elegans is an important model organism for biology, yet little is known about the origin and persistence of the self-fertilizing mode of reproduction in this lineage. Recent work has demonstrated an extraordinary degree of selfing combined with a hi...

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Autores principales: Loewe, Laurence, Cutter, Asher D
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2408595/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18447910
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-125