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Melanistic black eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) Melanistic guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) are rare, and are used in rituals by Andean curanderos. [1]Melanism is the congenital excess of melanin in an organism resulting in dark pigment.
The human germline mutation rate is approximately 0.5×10 −9 per basepair per year. [1] In genetics, the mutation rate is the frequency of new mutations in a single gene, nucleotide sequence, or organism over time. [2] Mutation rates are not constant and are not limited to a single type of mutation; there are many different types of mutations.
A mutation accumulation (MA) experiment is a genetic experiment in which isolated and inbred lines of organisms (so-called MA lines) are maintained such that the effect of natural selection is minimized, with the aim of quantitatively estimating the rates at which spontaneous mutations (mutations not caused by exogenous mutagens) occur in the studied organism.
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Prior to Charles Darwin, most naturalists were saltationists, [a] believing that species evolved and that speciation took place in sudden jumps. [4] Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was a gradualist but similar to other scientists of the period had written that saltational evolution was possible.
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In this context, mutation A is often referred to as the ‘original mutation’, whereas mutation B is referred to as the ‘alternative’ or ‘interfering’ mutation. Since, due to the absence of genetic recombination, beneficial mutations A and B cannot (easily) be combined into a single genotype AB, carriers of mutation A and carriers of ...
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