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Dynamic Mutation Rates and Extinction in Sexual Organisms
… This process, which I call "deterministic mutational meltdown,” places an upper limit on the relative size of the repair genome. The tendency of mutator alleles to recruit new mutator alleles, which I call "positive-feedback mutation pressure,” affects the mutation dynamics of any organism. …