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The spread of apomixis and its effect on resident genetic variation.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Sept 2007
Adolfsson S, Bengtsson B O
Abstract excerpt
In a simulation model we investigated how much of the initial genetic variation that is retained in a population after a dominant mutation has brought apomixis to fixation in it. A marker allele associated with the apomixis mutation is generally retained after the fixation of apomixis, particularly if the two alleles are closely linked. The spread of asexuality, however, normally leads to almost no loss of...
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