On the potential for extinction by Muller's Ratchet in <it>Caenorhabditis elegans</it>
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The self-fertile hermaphrodite worm <it>C. elegans </it>is an important model organism for biology, yet little is known about the origin and persistence of the self-fertilizing mode of reproduction in this lineage. Recent...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2008-04-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/8/125 |