Bengt Olle Bengtsson
Professor emeritus
Asexuals, Polyploids, Evolutionary Opportunists ...: The Population Genetics of Positive but Deteriorating Mutations.
Author
Summary, in English
Some genetic phenomena originate as mutations that are initially advantageous but decline in fitness until they become distinctly deleterious. Here I give the condition for a mutation-selection balance to form and describe some of the properties of the resulting equilibrium population. A characterization is also given of the fixation probabilities for such mutations.
Department/s
- MEMEG
- Evolutionary Genetics
Publishing year
2012
Language
English
Pages
499-1393
Publication/Series
Genetics
Volume
191
Issue
4
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Genetics Society of America
Topic
- Biological Sciences
Keywords
- mutation
- mutational load
- probability of fixation
- selecttion
Status
Published
Research group
- Evolutionary Genetics
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0016-6731