Quantifying the decanalizing effects of spontaneous mutations in rhabditid nematodes.

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The evolution of canalization, the robustness of the phenotype to environmental or genetic perturbation, has attracted considerable recent interest. A key step toward understanding the evolution of any phenotype is characterizing the rate at which mutation introduces genetic variation for the trait (the mutational variance, V(M)) and the average directional effects of mutations on the trait mean (DeltaM). In this...

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