Article
Deleterious effects of recombination and possible nonrecombinatorial advantages of sex in a fungal model.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Sept 2013
López-Villavicencio M, Debets A J M, Slakhorst M, Giraud T, Schoustra S E
Abstract excerpt
Why sexual reproduction is so prevalent in nature remains a major question in evolutionary biology. Most of the proposed advantages of sex rely on the benefits obtained from recombination. However, it is still unclear whether the conditions under which these recombinatorial benefits would be sufficient to maintain sex in the short term are met in nature. Our study addresses a largely overlooked hypothesis,...
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