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Why are diploid genomes widespread and dominant mutations rare?
Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften - 1 Oct 2007
Garncarz Diana, Cebrat Stanislaw, Stauffer Dietrich, Blindert Klaus
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We have used the sexual Penna ageing model to show that the relation between dominance and recessiveness could be a force which optimizes the genome size. While the possibility of complementation of the damaged allele by its functional counterparts (recessiveness) leads to the redundancy of genetic information, the dominant effect of defective genes tends to diminish the number of alleles fulfilling the same...
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