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Well any small enough population will be wiped out by genetic drift. Yes, if they're asexual, M.R. will be part of that.
Yes, but "small enough" is probably a lot smaller for sexual (or at least recombining) populations than for asexual ones. So if you're studying the persistence of small clonal populations, it's perfectly reasonable to ask how Muller's Ratchet is being avoided.
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I was just talking about the quotes that have been quoted from the article, I haven't read the paper. The quotes are in fact confused, which is why they confused Pressie.
Yes, I know, but I still don't see what's confused about the quotations. The only quotation that looks peculiar to me is, ""The age of clonal organisms should therefore be limited as well," because I can't tell what is meant by age or organism in it, since it presented without any context.