Directional selection and the evolution of sex and recombination.

doi:10.1017/s0016672300031372

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Directional selection and the evolution of sex and recombination.

Genetical research - 1 Jun 1993

Charlesworth B

Abstract excerpt

Models of the evolutionary advantages of sex and genetic recombination due to directional selection on a quantitative trait are analysed. The models assume that the trait is controlled by many additive genes. A nor-optimal selection function is used, in which the optimum either moves steadily in...

Topics

Biological Evolution
Genetic Linkage
Genetic Variation
Mathematics
Models, Genetic
Recombination, Genetic
Selection, Genetic
Sex

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