The Effect of Mutation on Population Size

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Mar 1973 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 242, pages 196-197 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: B, Clarke;

doi: 10.1038/242196a0

pmid: 4695156

The Effect of Mutation on Population Size

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AFTER the work of Haldane1 and Muller2, much has been written about the genetic load caused by mutation. This mutational load had been defined as the fraction by which the mean fitness of a population subject to mutation differs from the fitness of the wild (non-mutant) genotype3. The operational definition of load is then where Wmax is the fitness of the non-mutant genotype, and W the mean fitness of the population subject to mutation.

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Ecology, Genotype, Models, Biological, Genetics, Population, Phenotype, Gene Frequency, Mutation, Selection, Genetic, Population Growth, Mathematics

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