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Testing for the accumulation of deleterious mutations in asexual eukaryote genomes using molecular sequences

B. B. Normark Department of Entomology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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N. A. Moran Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Pages 1719-1729 | Published online: 03 Dec 2010

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