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Population genetics: surviving under mutation pressure
P D Keightley1, A Caballero, A García-Dorado
1Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, Scotland.
Current Biology : CB
|May 16, 1998
Abstract:
Concern has been voiced about the survival of endangered species, and even the long-term prospects for humans, in the face of accumulating deleterious mutations. Two experiments have investigated the mutation accumulation process in laboratory Drosophila populations, with apparently conflicting results.