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THE MUTATIONAL LOAD WITH EPISTATIC GENE INTERACTIONS IN FITNESS

1966 • 523 citations

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The accumulation of deleterious genes in a population—Muller's Ratchet

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Mutation-selection balance and the evolutionary advantage of sex and recombination

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