Purging Deleterious Mutations under Self Fertilization: Paradoxical Recovery in Fitness with Increasing Mutation Rate in Caenorhabditis elegans

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Levi T. Morran,

Current address: Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
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Aki H. Ohdera,

Affiliation Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
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Patrick C. Phillips

* E-mail: pphil@uoregon.edu

Affiliation Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
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