Neutral mutations and neutral substitutions in bacterial genomes.

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Molecular evolutionary biologists usually assess the underlying spectrum of mutations within a bacterial genome by examining substitutions that occur at sites believed to be under no selective constraints. Alternatively, bacterial mutation rates can also be estimated in a variety of experimental systems. The two classes of changes occurring in DNA sequences-i.e., mutations and neutral substitutions-are, in...

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