Purging deleterious mutations under self fertilization: Paradoxical recovery in fitness with increasing mutation rate in Caenorhabditis elegans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Morran, Levi T ^a   Ohdera, Aki H ^a   Phillips, Patrick C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESYLIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; MUTAGENIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HOMOZYGOSITY; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION RATE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SELF FERTILIZATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DOSE RESPONSE; GENE DELETION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; ETHYL METHANESULFONATE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC LINKAGE; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENS; MUTATION; SELF-FERTILIZATION;

EID: 79251528867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014473     Document Type: Article

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