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Prevalence of loss-of-function alleles does not correlate with lifetime fecundity and other life-history traits in metazoans.
Biology direct - 2 Mar 2018
Bezmenova Aleksandra V, Bazykin Georgii A, Kondrashov Alexey S
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BACKGROUND: Natural selection is possible only because all species produce more offsprings than what is needed to maintain the population. Still, the lifetime number of offspring varies widely across species. One may expect natural selection to be stronger in high-fecundity species. Alternatively, natural selection could be stronger in species where a female invests more into an individual offspring. This issue...
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