mutation rate
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmutationandrate
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mutation
noun
uk/mjuːˈteɪ.ʃən/us/mjuːˈteɪ.ʃən/
the way in which genes change and produce ...
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rate
noun[C]
uk/reɪt/us/reɪt/
the speed at which something happens or changes, or the amount or number of times it happens or changes in a ...
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In this paper, themutationrate, or the probability to conduct a mutation depends on the identity of parents and offspring.
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The indirect approach gave an estimate of themutationrateas a by-product of our investigation of linkage disequilibria.
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Amutationratewas calculated from the difference in mutant frequencies at 2 time-points.
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Evolution of digital organisms at highmutationrateleads to survival of the flattest.
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If themutationratedoes not vary with time, its value will cancel from all calculations and hence is not needed.
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Obviously, under multplicativity no limiting relationship exists between genome size andmutationrate.
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The key question is the extent ofmutationrateheterogeneity among sites in the evolutionary lineage of humans.
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The three indicated values of d are combined with all four indicated values of the per-locusmutationrateu.
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Of course, a highmutationrateleads to a somewhat elevated variance.
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The amount of selection depends strongly on what is assumed about the demographic history of the population and the microsatellitemutationrate.
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It is possible that themutationratein heterozygous females could be higher.
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Alternatively, high similarity within a segment may reflect a locally lowmutationrate.
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The spontaneousmutationratecould be increased in experimental animals by exposure to mutagens, but this was a random and undirected process.
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For a fixed mutational variance, lowering themutationratewill result in equilibrium populations that have less genetic variance but higher allelic skew and kurtosis.
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Decreasing the total genomicmutationratehas similar effects to increasing dominance (results not shown).
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The value measured represents an estimate for themutationratebased on analysis of homozygous female progeny.
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This knowledge allows use of a simple formula relating frequency of affected individuals within a population to the prevailingmutationrate.
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In contrast to allozymes, micro$ satellites have an exceptionally highmutationrate.
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