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Fixation of deleterious mutations in clonal lineages: evidence from hybridogenetic frogs.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 11 Nov 2001
Vorburger C
Abstract excerpt
The hemiclonal waterfrog Rana esculenta (RL genotype), a bisexual hybrid between R. ridibunda (RR) and R. lessonae (LL), eliminates the L genome from its germline and clonally transmits the R genome (hybridogenesis). Matings between hybrids produce R. ridibunda offspring, but they generally die at an early larval stage. Mortality may be due to fixed recessive deleterious mutations in the clonally inherited R...
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