Muller's Ratchet and compensatory mutation in <it>Caenorhabditis briggsae </it>mitochondrial genome evolution
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The theory of Muller' Ratchet predicts that small asexual populations are doomed to accumulate ever-increasing deleterious mutation loads as a consequence of the magnified power of genetic drift and mutation that accompanies sma...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2008-02-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/8/62 |