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mutational meltdown

noun

Definitions

  1. The process by which a small population accumulates harmful mutations, which leads to…

    The process by which a small population accumulates harmful mutations, which leads to loss of fitness and decline of the population size, which may lead to further accumulation of deleterious mutations due to fixation by genetic drift.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mutational meltdown. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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