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Not read. The summary is drawn from the abstract. A reading should check it first.
Why this is here
Adjacent material, with LIT-1611, for A1’s unnamed “population-genetic models of gene loss”. It supplies the mutational half of A2’s “drift-associated degradation”: what loses the gene once selection stops holding it.