Evolutionary genetics: The economics of mutation.
The presence of mutator genotypes in populations of bacteria may be favoured by selection because they produce rare beneficial mutations and thereby increase the rate of adaptive evolution. Recent work, however, shows that the relationship between mutation rates and adaptive evolution is more complicated.
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Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RB, UK.
D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000235:genetics; D005075:Biological Evolution; D009154:Mutation