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Mutational Meltdown

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Genomic Decay Paradox in the Amazon Molly

The Amazon molly seems prime for a mutational meltdown. In modeling out the rate of harmful mutations in the species, they ran into what they refer to in the paper as a genomic decay paradox. The authors write that several biological processes can individually or in combination solve this puzzle.

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