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Evolution of mutational robustness.
Mutation research - 28 Jan 2003
Wilke Claus O, Adami Christoph
Abstract excerpt
We review recent advances in the understanding of the mutation-selection balance of asexual replicators. For over 30 years, population geneticists thought that an expression derived by Kimura and Maruyama in 1966 fully solved this problem. However, Kimura and Maruyama's result is only correct in the absence of neutral mutations. The inclusion of neutral mutations leads to a wealth of interesting new effects, and,...
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