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Title |
On the potential for extinction by Muller's Ratchet in Caenorhabditis elegans
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Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, April 2008
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-8-125 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Laurence Loewe, Asher D Cutter |
Abstract |
The self-fertile hermaphrodite worm C. elegans 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 work has demonstrated an extraordinary degree of selfing combined with a high deleterious mutation rate in contemporary populations. These observations raise the question as to whether the mutation load might rise to such a degree as to eventually threaten the species with extinction. The potential for such a process to occur would inform our understanding of the time since the origin of self-fertilization in C. elegans history. |
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Scientists | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 72 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Germany | 3 | 4% |
United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
Sweden | 1 | 1% |
Canada | 1 | 1% |
Denmark | 1 | 1% |
United States | 1 | 1% |
Unknown | 63 | 88% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Researcher | 23 | 32% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 17% |
Student > Master | 8 | 11% |
Professor > Associate Professor | 6 | 8% |
Student > Bachelor | 5 | 7% |
Other | 13 | 18% |
Unknown | 5 | 7% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 46 | 64% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 11 | 15% |
Mathematics | 2 | 3% |
Computer Science | 2 | 3% |
Physics and Astronomy | 1 | 1% |
Other | 2 | 3% |
Unknown | 8 | 11% |
Attention Score in Context
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