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Mutation Accumulation in an Asexual Relative of Arabidopsis

Asexual populations experience weaker responses to natural selection, which causes deleterious mutations to accumulate over time. Additionally, stochastic loss of individuals free of deleterious mutations can lead to an irreversible increase in mutational load in asexuals (the “click” in Muller’s Ra...

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Autores principales: Lovell, John T., Williamson, Robert J., Wright, Stephen I., McKay, John K., Sharbel, Timothy F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5261742/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28068346
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006550