The rarity of mutations and the inflation of bacterial effective population sizes Mutations are fundamental for evolution, and their mathematical modelling in population genetics heavily relies on our perception of their frequency and the timescale over which they occur. A comm...

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The rarity of mutations and the inflation of bacterial effective population sizes
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