Muller's Ratchet and compensatory mutation in Caenorhabditis briggsae mitochondrial genome evolution
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- 1 January 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Evolutionary Biology
- Vol. 8 (1), 62
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-62
Abstract
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 small population size. Evidence for Muller's Ratchet and knowledge on its underlying molecular mechanisms, however, are lacking for natural populations.Keywords
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