Maximum likelihood estimation of spontaneous mutation rates from large initial populations.

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When estimating a spontaneous mutation rate from either a single culture (C=1) or from the C parallel cultures (C>1) of a fluctuation experiment, the use of a large initial population size N0 to seed each culture will permit a gaussian approximation for the probability distribution of the number M of mutants at the time when the culture(s) has (have) grown to size N=N02g, i.e., experienced g doublings. Using this...

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