Selection against deleterious mutations and the maintenance of biparental sex.

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The mutational deterministic hypothesis postulates an advantage to sexual over asexual reproduction when mutation rates are on the order of 1.0 per genome per generation, provided that selection takes the form of a synergistic epistasis. While the efficacy of this mechanism has been investigated for infinite populations, its ability to protect sex in finite populations exhibiting stochastic dynamics remains...

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