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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |