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Sexual selection accelerates the elimination of a deleterious mutant in Drosophila melanogaster.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Feb 2009

Hollis Brian, Fierst Janna L, Houle David

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Although theory indicates that indirect genetic benefits through mate choice should be widespread, empirical work has often either failed to detect the operation of such benefits or shown a net cost to the presence of sexual selection. We tested whether sexual selection can increase the speed with which a conditionally deleterious allele is removed from a laboratory population of Drosophila melanogaster. The...

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PMID: 19154371
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00551.x

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