The maintenance of sex: Ronald Fisher meets the Red Queen.

doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-174

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The maintenance of sex: Ronald Fisher meets the Red Queen.

BMC evolutionary biology - 21 Aug 2013

Green David, Mason Chris

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BACKGROUND: Sex in higher diploids carries a two-fold cost of males that should reduce its fitness relative to cloning, and result in its extinction. Instead, sex is widespread and clonal species face early obsolescence. One possible reason is that sex is an adaptation that allows organisms to respond more effectively to endless changes in their environment. The purpose of this study was to model mutation and...

Topics

Animals
Biological Evolution
Computer Simulation
Diploidy
Female
Humans
Male
Models, Biological
Mutation
Mutation Rate
Reproduction
Sex

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PMID: 23962342
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-174
PMCID: PMC3765275

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