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Male mutation rates and the cost of sex for females.

Nature - 12 May 1994

Redfield R J

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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 generate a large and previously overlooked female-specific cost of sex. DNA sequence comparisons have confirmed Haldane's...

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PMID: 8177318
DOI: 10.1038/369145a0

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