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Origin of sex for error repair. II. Rarity and extreme environments.
Theoretical population biology - 1 Feb 1995
Michod R E, Long A
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In a previous paper we studied the simultaneous, and at times conflicting, needs of coping with DNA damage, efficient cell replication, and the avoidance of cell mortality. These selective factors operated on sexual and asexual haploid and diploid populations that were reproductively isolated from one another. We concluded, in part, that a sexual type of cell could not expand from extreme rarity in populations...
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