Article
An advantage of sexual reproduction in a rapidly changing environment.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Crow J F
Abstract excerpt
When an environmental change imposes strong directional selection, there are two advantages of sexual reproduction. First, an asexual population is limited to the most extreme individual in the population, and progress under directional selection can go no farther without mutation; no such limita...
Topics
- Environment
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation
- Reproduction
- Reproduction, Asexual
- Selection, Genetic
- Sex