Mutation load under vegetative reproduction and cytoplasmic inheritance.

doi:10.1093/genetics/137.1.311

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Mutation load under vegetative reproduction and cytoplasmic inheritance.

Genetics - 1 May 1994

Kondrashov A S

Abstract excerpt

For reasons that remain unclear, even multicellular organisms usually originate from a single cell. Here I consider the balance between deleterious mutations and selection against them in a population with obligate vegetative reproduction, when every offspring is initiated by more than one cell o...

Topics

Biological Evolution
Cytoplasm
Models, Genetic
Mutation
Reproduction
Selection, Genetic

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