Evolutionarily stable mutation rates.

Abstract excerpt

I investigate the hypothesis that mutation rates in natural populations are determined by a balance between: (1) selection against deleterious mutations favouring lower mutation rates, and (2) selection opposing further reduction of the mutation rate, resulting from the costs incurred by more str...

Topics

• Animals
• Evolution, Molecular
• Mutation
• Reproduction
• Reproduction, Asexual
• Selection, Genetic