Research article

On the potential for extinction by Muller's Ratchet in Caenorhabditis elegans

Laurence Loewe^1,²^* and Asher D Cutter³

¹ Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, UK

² Center for Systems Biology Edinburgh, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JU, UK

³ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 1L2, Canada

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:125 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-125

Published: 30 April 2008