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Copyright 1994 by Robert A. Desharnais, California State University, LA Mutation was created for an introductory college course in population genetics. It simulates stochastic fluctuations in the genetic composition of a population due to the balance between random genetic drift and mutation. Population size can vary from one hundred to one thousand diploid individuals and mutation rates between 0.001 and 0.0001 per allele per generation can be selected. Students can switch among three different views: allele frequencies versus time, mean homozygosity versus time, or a symbolic representation of the gene pool. In the latter view, alleles are represented by different letters and different colors. The application shows running values for the observed and expected homozygosity, the current number of alleles, the maximum number of alleles that ever existed in the population, and the total number of alleles produced by mutation. Graphs can printed or copied and pasted into other applications.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.