Mutational Meltdown in Large Sexual Populations
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When a new mdividual is formed (independently of the reproduction process) it inherits harmful iuutations. Moreover, new mutations are acquired even in the genetic code formation, most of them deleterious ones. This might lead to a time decay in the mean fitness of the whole population that, for long enough time, ,vould produce the extinction of the
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تاریخ انتشار 2016