Mutation and sex in a competitive world.

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How do deleterious mutations interact to affect fitness? The answer to this question has substantial implications for a variety of important problems in population biology, including the evolution of sex, the rate of adaptation and the conservation of small populations. Here we analyse a mathematical model of competition for food in which deleterious mutations affect competitive ability. We show that, if...

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