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Mutations, the fundamental sources of evolution, are described in detail. They include nucleotide substitutions, insertions/deletions of unique and repeat sequences, recombinations, gene conversions, gene duplications, and mutations affecting phenotypes. Mutation rate estimates and methods to estimate mutation rates are also discussed.
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Saitou, N. (2013). Mutation. In: Introduction to Evolutionary Genomics. Computational Biology, vol 17. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5304-7_2
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