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Spontaneous mutational variation for body size in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Genetics - 1 Oct 2002
Azevedo Ricardo B R, Keightley Peter D, Laurén-Määttä Camilla, Vassilieva Larissa L, Lynch Michael, Leroi Armand M
Abstract excerpt
We measured the impact of new mutations on genetic variation for body size in two independent sets of C. elegans spontaneous mutation-accumulation (MA) lines, derived from the N2 strain, that had been maintained by selfing for 60 or 152 generations. The two sets of lines gave broadly consistent results. The change of among-line genetic variation between cryopreserved controls and the MA lines implied that broad...
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