Sentence examples for mutation rate rather from inspiring English sources
In this case, the newly arisen genetic variation would be due to increased mutation rate, rather than due to release of the already present but hidden genetic variation in the phenotype.
The rate estimated here is best characterized as an absolute mutation rate rather than a substitution rate because most of the changes are non-synonymous and non-informative and have not yet been purged through purifying selection.
In the present ND5 data set, there were very few non-synonymous substitutions and no significant effects were detected by MacDonald-Kreitman tesos, so the greater variation in ND5 than COI is consistent with elevated mutation rate rather than selection.
We do mean γ distribution of the raw mutation rate rather than omega.
The finding that mutation rate rather than selection plays a major role in SNP density may be important for the design of association studies.
These analyses collectively support a model of high mutation rate, rather than meiotic drive or gene conversion, as being the principal force driving rapid centromere evolution in yeast.
BEAST also uses prior distributions on node dates and mutation rates, rather than on branch lengths.
Finding this wave-like distribution in both wild-type and MMR-deficient lines suggests it is caused by biases in underlying raw mutation rates, rather than biases in rates of mismatch repair.
This is a potential problem for our test, as the difference between species in R Z A might reflect the difference in mutation rates rather than the effective sizes of breeding population.
Analysis of the C. savignyi genome found little evidence to support an elevated mutation rate, but rather points to a large population size contributing to the polymorphism level.
Equally important, Earl and Deem's study showed that different mutation rates can be selected for in different environments; this implies that there is not necessarily an optimum mutation rate, but rather that different evolvability characteristics can be optimal under different circumstances.
