Purifying selection in mitochondria, free-living and obligate intracellular proteobacteria
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The effectiveness of elimination of slightly deleterious mutations depends mainly on drift and recombination frequency. Here we analyze the influence of these two factors on the strength of the purifying selection in mitochondrial an...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2007-02-01
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Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/7/17 |