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However, our findings do indicate that compensatory mutations can play a major role in producing antagonistic epistasis and thus slowing the decay in mean fitness under random mutation accumulation.
The WTO is a non-democratic (unless you want to stretch the definition of "democratic" to absurd proportions) organization with great power to affect, well, everyone . It is symptomatic of the decay of accountability and legitimacy in ostensibly democratic, people-centered government.
Their ventures into social topics focus on alcohol, drugs, domestic violence, adultery, divorce, illegitimacy, crime, and urban decay.
These spectra are similar to those previously reported for wild-type L1 and nitrocefin [ 39 ] , and the features can be attributed to substrate decay, product formation, and intermediate formation and decay, respectively.
After partitioning the contributions of w neut ( d ) and w comp ( d ) for all 100 functions w ( d ), we determined α and β for the functions w neut ( d ) in the same way as was done for w ( d ). The functions w neut ( d ) can be thought of as the decay functions without "contamination" by compensatory mutations.