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lethal equivalent lumber industry
Abstract:
Lethal genetic load might be caused by a few lethal genes or by large numbers of mildly deleterious polygenes. The extent of this lethal load can be quantified as the number of "lethal equivalents" in each individual. If there are large numbers of delet