Sex, mutation and fitness: asymmetric costs and routes to recovery through compensatory evolution.

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A wild-type population of Drosophila melanogaster was used to assess the impact of a known deleterious mutation, nub(1), when it had (1) evolved for up to 180 generations with the mutation or (2) recently had the same mutant allele introgressed into it. Relative to this benchmark, we observed much stronger initial fitness depression in males (-74%) than in females (-38%) and also relatively greater fitness...

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