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Hazardous Loss of Genetic Diversity through Selective Sweeps in Asexual Populations.

The American naturalist - 1 Mar 2022

Wahl Lindi M, Tanaka Mark M

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AbstractWith the twofold cost of sex, derived asexual organisms have an immediate reproductive advantage over their sexual sisters. Yet the "twiggy" phylogenetic distribution of asexual lineages implies that they become extinct relatively quickly over evolutionary time. Meanwhile, bacteria and archaea have persisted for billions of years without requiring sexual reproduction. A simple explanation for this...

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PMID: 35175901
DOI: 10.1086/717813

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