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Interference among deleterious mutations favours sex and recombination in finite populations.

Nature - 7 Sept 2006

Keightley Peter D, Otto Sarah P

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Sex and recombination are widespread, but explaining these phenomena has been one of the most difficult problems in evolutionary biology. Recombination is advantageous when different individuals in a population carry different advantageous alleles. By bringing together advantageous alleles onto the same chromosome, recombination speeds up the process of adaptation and opposes the fixation of harmful mutations by...

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PMID: 16957730
DOI: 10.1038/nature05049

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