Spontaneous deleterious mutation in Arabidopsis thaliana
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Spontaneous deleterious mutation in Arabidopsis thaliana.
The frequency and selective impact of deleterious mutations are fundamental parameters in evolutionary theory, yet they have not been directly measured in a plant species. To estimate these quantities, we allowed spontaneous mutations to accumulate for 10 generations in 1,000 inbred lines of the annual, self-fertilizing plant Arabidopsis thaliana and assayed fitness differences between generati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.20.11393