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Self-compatibility in yeast is selected for reproductive assurance not population-level compatibility.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 29 Jun 2023
Nieuwenhuis Bart P S, Shraim Rasha, Al Ghaithi Hamed
Abstract excerpt
In haploid species, sexual reproduction by selfing lacks the common benefits from recombination and is indistinguishable from asexual reproduction at the genetic level. Nevertheless, the evolution of self-compatibility, known as homothallism in organisms with mating types, has occurred hundreds of times in fungi. Two main hypotheses have been proposed for the evolution of homothallism. First, that homothallism...
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