The Rate and Effects of Spontaneous Mutation on Fitness Traits in the Social Amoeba, Dictyostelium discoideum
We performed a mutation accumulation (MA) experiment in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum to estimate the rate and distribution of effects of spontaneous mutations affecting eight putative fitness traits. We found that the per-generation mutation rate for most fitness components is 0.0019 m...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Genetics Society of America
2013
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3704240/ |