Genetic variation of the effects of spontaneous mutation on size at birth.

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Spontaneous mutation underlies all genetic variation, and thus influences the evolutionary dynamics of complex traits. Although much work has estimated mutation rates for fitness or at molecular scales, we have comparatively little information about mutational influences on other complex phenotypes. We conducted four mutation accumulation experiments with independent clones of Daphnia pulex, and then measured the...

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