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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Future Virol. 2008 Nov;3(6):553–566. doi: 10.2217/17460794.3.6.553

Figure 2. The extinction threshold is dependent upon mutation rate and fecundity.

Figure 2

The dotted line represents the threshold between population extinction (above) and population survival (below). The log-linear relationship indicates that large increases in fecundity are required to overcome small changes in mutation rate.

Adapted from [20]