Aims. The role of minor galaxy mergers in galaxy evolution, and in particular to mass assembly, remains an open question. In this work we measure the merger fraction, fm, of galaxies in the VVDS-Deep spectroscopic survey, and study its dependence on the B-band luminosity ratio the pair galaxies, μ ≡ LB,2/LB,1, focusing on minor mergers with 1/10 ≤ μ < 1/4, and on the rest-frame NUV − r colour of the principal galaxies.
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