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There is a difference between using a word in a phrasal definition and suggesting it as a— presumably substitutable—synonym.
This relaxed definition of a conserved gene pair was adopted to take into account the high level of recombination in prokaryotic genomes.
Trivia allows the junkie to master a small (by definition trivial) corner of the universe.
An enhancement that may be useful in automated medical record systems, but not in claims based systems, is to require fever (measured value, not ICD9 code) to be part of the definition of a lower respiratory infection.
By definition, w (0) is the fitness of the reference sequence, and we have always w (0) = 1. The value of w (1) is given by 1 minus the mean effect of single mutations and, in general, the value of w ( d ) is given by 1 minus the mean effect of d mutations.