mutational meltdown

English

Noun

mutational meltdown (countable and uncountable, plural mutational meltdowns)

  1. (genetics) The process by which a small population accumulates harmful mutations, which leads to loss of fitness and decline of the population size, which may lead to further accumulation of deleterious mutations due to fixation by genetic drift.
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