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The optimum mutation rate depended on both the fraction and the effects of beneficial mutations, rather than on the effects of deleterious ones.
Beneficial or compensatory mutations are systematically less probable than deleterious ones, the ratio between both types being strongly dependent on the degree of optimization of the population.
It shows that adaptation requires a surplus of beneficial substitutions over deleterious ones.
Possibly, bottlenecks since the Plio-Pleistocene may have played an important role, facilitating both the loss of unfixed alleles and the fixation of deleterious ones by genetic drift [28], and which could help explain the observed complex dynamics of HERV-K.
However, one has to keep in mind that the emergence of beneficial mutants is certainly rare compared to deleterious ones.
However, this criterion can be relaxed to non deleterious mutations that compensate for the effects of potentially deleterious ones.
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As expected, their combination is predicted to be the most deleterious one, yielding 71% of the consensus activity.
This evolutionary pressure is due to their hemizigous expression in males that will favor advantageous mutations and remove any deleterious one.
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