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Epistasis and the selective advantage of sex and recombination.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics - 1 Sept 2008
de Oliveira Viviane M, da Silva Juliana K, Campos Paulo R A
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The understanding of the central mechanisms favoring sex and recombination in real populations is one of the fundamental issues in evolutionary biology. Based on a previous stochastic formulation for the study of sex, here we aim to investigate the conditions under which epistasis favors the fixation of the sexual mode of reproduction in a given population. In addition, we try to identify the evolutionary forces...
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