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From: Adapting the engine to the fuel: mutator populations can reduce the mutational load by reorganizing their genome structure

Fig. 3

Evolution of genome structure in the ancestral lineages. Evolution of the genome structure in the ancestral lineages of control and mutator populations between generation 300,000 and 390,000. a Genome size in the control populations. b Genome size in the mutator populations. c Number of essential base-pairs in the control populations. d Number of essential base-pairs in the mutator populations. e Number of non-essential base-pairs in the control populations. f Number of non-essential base-pairs in the mutator populations

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BMC Ecology and Evolution

ISSN: 2730-7182

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