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Haploid and Sexual Selection Shape the Rate of Evolution of Genes across the Honey Bee (Apis mellifera L.) Genome.
Genome biology and evolution - 31 May 2022
Slater Garett P, Dapper Amy L, Harpur Brock A
Abstract excerpt
Many species have separate haploid and diploid phases. Theory predicts that each phase should experience the effects of evolutionary forces (like selection) differently. In the haploid phase, all fitness-affecting alleles are exposed to selection, whereas in the diploid phase, those same alleles can be masked by homologous alleles. This predicts that selection acting on genes expressed in haploids should be more...
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