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Parasitism, mutation accumulation and the maintenance of sex.

Nature - 10 Feb 1994

Howard R S, Lively C M

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Two classes of models attempt to explain why obligate partheno-genesis only rarely replaces sexual reproduction in natural populations, in spite of the apparent reproductive advantage that parthenogens gain by producing only female offspring. The mutation-accumulation models suggest that sex is adaptive because it purges the genome of harmful recurrent mutations. The ecological genetic models postulate that sex...

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PMID: 8107824
DOI: 10.1038/367554a0

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