Article
Radical amino acid mutations persist longer in the absence of sex.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Apr 2018
Sharbrough Joel, Luse Meagan, Boore Jeffrey L, Logsdon John M, Neiman Maurine
Abstract excerpt
Harmful mutations are ubiquitous and inevitable, and the rate at which these mutations are removed from populations is a critical determinant of evolutionary fate. Closely related sexual and asexual taxa provide a particularly powerful setting to study deleterious mutation elimination because sexual reproduction should facilitate mutational clearance by reducing selective interference between sites and by...
Topics
- Amino Acid Substitution
- Amino Acids
- Animals
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genome, Mitochondrial
- Mutation
- New Zealand
- Reproduction, Asexual
- Snails