The mutational meltdown in asexual populations.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a111354

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The mutational meltdown in asexual populations.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Lynch M, Bürger R, Butcher D, Gabriel W

Abstract excerpt

Loss of fitness due to the accumulation of deleterious mutations appears to be inevitable in small, obligately asexual populations, as these are incapable of reconstituting highly fit genotypes by recombination or back mutation. The cumulative buildup of such mutations is expected to lead to an e...

Topics

Biological Evolution
Models, Biological
Mutation
Recombination, Genetic
Reproduction, Asexual
Selection, Genetic

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