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Diversity and the maintenance of sex by parasites.

Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Mar 2015

Ashby B, King K C

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The Red Queen hypothesis (RQH) predicts that parasite-mediated selection will maintain sexual individuals in the face of competition from asexual lineages. The prediction is that sexual individuals will be difficult targets for coevolving parasites if they give rise to more genetically diverse offspring than asexual lineages. However, increasing host genetic diversity is known to suppress parasite spread, which...

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PMID: 25676723
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12590

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