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The mutational rate of Drosophila viability decline: tinkering with old data.
Genetical research - 1 Oct 2002
García-Dorado A, Caballero A
Abstract excerpt
In the first 25 generations of his classical mutation accumulation experiment, T. Mukai estimated a large rate of early linear decay for the relative viability of Drosophila melanogaster chromosome II (delta MII = 0.004). Mukai forced through zero the regression of viability decline on generation number, but it has recently been shown (Fry, 2001) that a similar decline (delta MII = 0.006) is obtained from...
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