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Sex, amitosis, and evolvability in the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 23 Jan 2023
Tarkington Jason, Zhang Hao, Azevedo Ricardo B R, Zufall Rebecca A
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Understanding the mechanisms that generate genetic variation, and thus contribute to the process of adaptation, is a major goal of evolutionary biology. Mutation and genetic exchange have been well studied as mechanisms to generate genetic variation. However, there are additional factors, such as genome architecture, that may also impact the amount of genetic variation in some populations, and the extent to which...
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