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Unisexual reproduction reverses Muller's ratchet.
Genetics - 1 Nov 2014
Roach Kevin C, Heitman Joseph
Abstract excerpt
Cryptococcus neoformans is a pathogenic basidiomycetous fungus that engages in outcrossing, inbreeding, and selfing forms of unisexual reproduction as well as canonical sexual reproduction between opposite mating types. Long thought to be clonal, >99% of sampled environmental and clinical isolates of C. neoformans are MATα, limiting the frequency of opposite mating-type sexual reproduction. Sexual reproduction...
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