[The impact of neutral mutations on genome evolvability].

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Beneficial mutations with strong effects are rare and deleterious mutations are purged by natural selection. Therefore, the majority of mutations that accumulate in genomes have very weak or no selective effects, being then called neutral mutations. Over the last two decades, it has been shown that mutations, even when they are neutral, affect evolvability by providing access to new phenotypes through...

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