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Heterozygote advantage and the evolution of a dominant diploid phase.
Genetics - 1 Dec 1992
Goldstein D B
Abstract excerpt
The life cycle of eukaryotic, sexual species is divided into haploid and diploid phases. In multicellular animals and seed plants, the diploid phase is dominant, and the haploid phase is reduced to one, or a very few cells, which are dependent on the diploid form. In other eukaryotic species, however, the haploid phase may dominate or the phases may be equally developed. Even though an alternation between haploid...
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- Alleles
- Diploidy
- Genes, Dominant
- Genetics, Population
- Haploidy
- Heterozygote
- Ploidies
- Selection, Genetic