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Recombination and loss of complementation: a more than two-fold cost for parthenogenesis.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Sept 2004
Archetti M
Abstract excerpt
Certain types of asexual reproduction lead to loss of complementation, that is unmasking of recessive deleterious alleles. A theoretical measure of this loss is calculated for apomixis, automixis and endomitosis in the cases of diploidy and polyploidy. The effect of the consequent unmasking of deleterious recessive mutations on fitness is also calculated. Results show that, depending on the number of lethal...
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