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Trends Genet 2003 Feb 01;192:57-9.
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How many lethal alleles?

Halligan DL , Keightley PD .


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Knowledge of the frequency of lethal mutant alleles in a population is important for our understanding of population genetics and evolution, and yet there have been few attempts to measure their number in wild populations. A new study has revealed unexpectedly low numbers of segregating lethal alleles in two species of fish. More experiments are needed, however, to know whether this result is general.

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