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Physiological response to three environmental stressors predicts fitness and genome quality but not base substitution rate in caenorhabditis elegans
<p>"Since DNA mutations occur all the time and may have deleterious effects on fitness (survival and reproduction), organisms expend substantial metabolic resources to find and repair mutations. This metabolic expenditure is termed the cost of fidelity. If an organism is in "poor" condition and …