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A HIGH FREQUENCY OF HERITABLE CHANGES IN NATURAL POPULATIONS OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER IN UKRAINE.
TSitologiia i genetika - 1 Jan 2000
Kozeretska I A, Serga S V, Kunda-Pron I, Protsenko O V, Demydov S V
Abstract excerpt
Spontaneous mutations are thought to have a stable rate for a given species. If non-adaptive, they appear at low frequencies and are governed by drift. However, environmental factors have been reported to cause spread of non-adaptive mutations in populations, governed by mechanisms, such as genetic assimilation. In the present study, we report a simultaneous appearance of a mutant and apparently non-adaptive C2...
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