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Selection on mutators is not frequency-dependent

The evolutionary fate of mutator mutations – genetic variants that raise the genome-wide mutation rate – in asexual populations is often described as being frequency (or number) dependent. Mutators can invade a population by hitchhiking with a sweeping beneficial mutation, but motivated by earlier e...

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Autores principales: Raynes, Yevgeniy, Weinreich, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6867826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31697233
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.51177