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Sexual selection can remove an experimentally induced mutation load.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jan 2014

Almbro Maria, Simmons Leigh W

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Sexual selection is argued to be important for the removal of deleterious mutations, promoting population fitness, accelerating adaptation, and compensating for the two-fold cost of sex. Here we induced mutations in the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus using ionizing radiation, and tested the efficacy of sexual selection in their removal. Mutations reduced male precopulatory (strength) and postcopulatory (testes...

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PMID: 24372608
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12238

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