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Nature of deleterious mutation load in Drosophila.

Genetics - 1 Dec 1996

Keightley P D

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Much population genetics and evolution theory depends on knowledge of genomic mutation rates and distributions of mutation effects for fitness, but most information comes from a few mutation accumulation experiments in Drosophila in which replicated chromosomes are sheltered from natural selectio...

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Animals
Drosophila
Genetics, Population
Models, Genetic
Mutation

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PMID: 8978082
DOI: 10.1093/genetics/144.4.1993
PMCID: PMC1207746

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