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The trajectory for mean fitness as random mutations accumulate is generally one of decay because many more mutations are deleterious than are beneficial.
Prudie is mindful of the fact that a gemütlich bunch of girlfriends is wonderful, but this crowd is hazardous to your health, the deleterious effects of secondhand smoke having been accepted by most people.
We have shown that phenotypic hiding has substantial influence on the equilibrium frequencies of mutants in selection-mutation balance, and on the speed at which deleterious mutants are lost from the population.
Because deleterious mutations of Tlr4 have become fixed spontaneously in two strains of mice, we considered it possible that other functionally important mutations might be identified in mice and humans.
Wilke and Adami [ 11 ] proposed that inhomogeneities in the distribution of genotypes give rise to directional epistasis (directional epistasis is the net epistasis averaged over many pairs of mutations) among deleterious mutations, and that the sign of directional epistasis provides information about the density gradient of high-fitness sequences within a cluster.