The Role of Deleterious Substitutions in Crop Genomes

Populations continually incur new mutations with fitness effects ranging from lethal to adaptive. While the distribution of fitness effects of new mutations is not directly observable, many mutations likely either have no effect on organismal fitness or are deleterious. Historically, it has been hyp...

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Main Authors: Kono, Thomas J. Y., Fu, Fengli, Mohammadi, Mohsen, Hoffman, Paul J., Liu, Chaochih, Stupar, Robert M., Smith, Kevin P., Tiffin, Peter, Fay, Justin C., Morrell, Peter L.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4989107/