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Inbreeding depression varies with investment in sex in a facultative parthenogen.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Sept 2009
Cáceres Carla E, Hartway Cynthia, Paczolt Kimberly A
Abstract excerpt
The reproductive mode of facultative parthenogens allows recessive mutations that accumulate during the asexual phase to be unmasked following sexual reproduction. Longer periods of asexual reproduction should increase the accumulation of deleterious mutations within individuals, reduce population-level genetic diversity via competition and increase the probability of mating among close relatives. Having...
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