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Germline selection: population genetic aspects of the sexual/asexual life cycle.

Genetics - 1 Dec 1991

Hastings I M

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Population geneticists make a distinction between sexual and asexual organisms depending on whether individuals inherit genes from one or two parents. When individual genes are considered, this distinction becomes less satisfactory for multicellular sexual organisms. Individual genes pass through numerous asexual mitotic cell divisions in the germline prior to meiosis and sexual recombination. The processes of...

Topics

Animals
Biological Evolution
Genes, Dominant
Germ Cells
Models, Genetic
Mutation
Recombination, Genetic
Reproduction
Reproduction, Asexual
Selection, Genetic

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PMID: 1783297
DOI: 10.1093/genetics/129.4.1167
PMCID: PMC1204780

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