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Abiotic stress does not magnify the deleterious effects of spontaneous mutations.
Heredity - 1 Dec 2015
Andrew J R, Dossey M M, Garza V O, Keller-Pearson M, Baer C F, Joyner-Matos J
Abstract excerpt
Although the effects of deleterious alleles often are predicted to be greater in stressful environments, there is no theoretical basis for this prediction and the empirical evidence is mixed. Here we characterized the effects of three types of abiotic stress (thermal, oxidative and hyperosmotic) on two sets of nematode (Caenorhabditis elegans) mutation accumulation (MA) lines that differ by threefold in fitness....
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