Error catastrophe
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error-catastrophe-229-3380497
title:
Error catastrophe
text:
Error catastrophe refers to the cumulative loss of genetic information in a lineage of organisms due to high mutation rates. The mutation rate above which error catastrophe occurs is called the error threshold. Both terms were coined by Manfred Eigen in his mathematical evolutionary theory of the quasispecies. The term is most widely used to refer to mutation accumulation to the point of inviability of the organism or virus, where it cannot produce enough viable offspring to maintain a populatio
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Loss of genetic information due to mutation rates
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_catastrophe
date created:
2005-05-29T21:34:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T18:06:30Z
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