Stabilizing selection, mutational bias, and the evolution of sex.

doi:10.1111/evo.13547

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Stabilizing selection, mutational bias, and the evolution of sex.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Sept 2018

Vanhoenacker Eloïse, Sandell Linnéa, Roze Denis

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Stabilizing selection around a fixed phenotypic optimum is expected to disfavor sexual reproduction, since asexually reproducing organisms can maintain a higher fitness at equilibrium, while sex disrupts combinations of compensatory mutations. This conclusion rests on the assumption that mutational effects on phenotypic traits are unbiased, that is, mutation does not tend to push phenotypes in any particular...

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PMID: 29993124
DOI: 10.1111/evo.13547

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