Male mutation rates and the cost of sex for females.

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Male mutation rates and the cost of sex for females.

Nature - 12 May 1994

Redfield R J

Abstract excerpt

Although we do not know why sex evolved, the twofold cost of meiosis for females provides a standard against which postulated benefits of sex can be evaluated. The most reliable benefit is sex's ability to reduce the impact of deleterious mutations. But deleterious mutations may themselves genera...

Topics

Animals
Biological Evolution
Computer Simulation
Drosophila
Female
Male
Models, Biological
Mutation
Parthenogenesis
Recombination, Genetic
Reproduction
Selection, Genetic
Sex
Sex Characteristics

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