Article
The rate of spontaneous mutation for life-history traits in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Genetics - 1 Jan 1999
Vassilieva L L, Lynch M
Abstract excerpt
Spontaneous mutations were accumulated in 100 replicate lines of Caenorhabditis elegans over a period of approximately 50 generations. Periodic assays of these lines and comparison to a frozen control suggest that the deleterious mutation rate for typical life-history characters in this species i...
Topics
- Animals
- Caenorhabditis elegans
- Mutation