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Reproductive Evolution: Pulling the Plug on Selection.
Current biology : CB - 19 Oct 2015
Reilly Douglas K, Srinivasan Jagan
Abstract excerpt
Hermaphroditism leads to reduced sexual selection and can result in the retention of deleterious mutations. A new study characterizes one such mutation that results in male-male copulation in nematodes, while also implicating a previously undescribed source of chemical signaling.
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