Fitness decline in spontaneous mutation accumulation lines of Caenorhabditis elegans with varying effective population sizes

Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 104-116

  Katju, Vaishali ^a   Packard, Lucille B ^a   Bu, Lijing ^a   Keightley, Peter D ^b   Bergthorsson, Ulfar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deleterious mutation; Epistasis; Fitness; Genome wide mutation rate; Productivity; Survivorship to adulthood

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BIOACCUMULATION; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; EPISTASIS; FITNESS; GENOME; MUTATION; POPULATION DECLINE; SELECTION; TICK;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; POPULATION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC FITNESS; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; POPULATION;

EID: 84925455770     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12554     Document Type: Article

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