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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Main Authors: Popadin Konstantin, Mamirova Leila, Gelfand Mikhail S
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-02-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/7/17