The effect of biased conversion on the mutation load.

doi:10.1017/s0016672300025519

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The effect of biased conversion on the mutation load.

Genetical research - 1 Jun 1990

Bengtsson B O

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The mutation load is sensitive to changes in the segregation ratio caused, for example, by biased conversion. If the distortion, measured by the force of conversion, is greater than the loss of fitness in the mutation heterozygotes, then the mutation load will be far away from its normal value. E...

Topics

Gene Conversion
Genes, Dominant
Genes, Recessive
Mathematics
Models, Genetic
Mutation

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