The spatial Muller's ratchet: surfing of deleterious mutations during range expansion
During a range expansion, deleterious mutations can “surf” on the colonization front. The resultant decrease in fitness is known as expansion load. An Allee effect is known to reduce the loss of genetic diversity of expanding populations, by changing the nature of the expansion from “pulled” to “pus...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2020
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