Article
Selection against deleterious mutations and the maintenance of biparental sex.
Theoretical population biology - 1 Jun 1994
Howard R S
Abstract excerpt
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...
Topics
- Animals
- Computer Simulation
- Female
- Male
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation
- Reproduction, Asexual
- Selection, Genetic
- Sex
- Stochastic Processes