Estimation of spontaneous genome-wide mutation rate parameters: Whither beneficial mutations?

Heredity

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 497-501

  Bataillon, Thomas ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Compensatory mutations; Deleterious mutations; Fitness; Genetic load; Mutational meltdown

Indexed keywords

GENE MUTATION; GENOME; MUTATION RATE;

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MUTATION;

ANIMALS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, INSECT; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME; HAPLOIDY; MUTATION;

EID: 0033921235     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.2000.00727.x     Document Type: Review

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