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Bengt-Olle Bengtsson

Bengt Olle Bengtsson

Professor emeritus

Bengt-Olle Bengtsson

Asexuals, Polyploids, Evolutionary Opportunists ...: The Population Genetics of Positive but Deteriorating Mutations.

Author

  • Bengt Olle Bengtsson

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