Sentence examples for deleterious mutations from inspiring English sources

Deleterious mutations are much easier to study than beneficial mutations.

"Deleterious mutations and the evolution of sexual reproduction".

The reason is that sex purges deleterious mutations from the population: sex generates new gene combinations, and thus in each generation it creates some individuals with relatively few deleterious mutations and some with lots.

Most people think of inbreeding as bad, but it could be helpful in purging deleterious mutations from a population".

Then it was the turn of deleterious mutations, which became trendy in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Deleterious mutations have been hypothesized to play a central role in a variety of evolutionary phenomena, including (and most prominently) sex.

Out of 267 missense variants, 140 are deleterious mutations.

In his view, advantageous mutations would persist while deleterious mutations would not.

Likewise, recombination can juxtapose deleterious mutations, thereby hastening their loss from the population.

This approach is superior to iterative mutagenesis techniques because it provides a mechanism to separate, randomly, beneficial and deleterious mutations.

Ka/Ks < 1 is termed "purifying selection", which means natural selection eliminates deleterious mutations, thus maintaining the protein as is.