Selfish genetic elements and their role in evolution: the evolution of sex and some of what that entails.

doi:10.1098/rstb.1995.0120

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Selfish genetic elements and their role in evolution: the evolution of sex and some of what that entails.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 29 Sept 1995

Hurst L D

Abstract excerpt

An individual is often considered (sometimes implicitly) to be the product of a well functioning mutualism between its constituent genes. This however need not be so. One consequence of sexual reproduction is that costly competition within an individual between genes that are effectively allelic...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Basidiomycota
Biological Evolution
Cytoplasm
Eukaryotic Cells
Female
Male
Meiosis
Models, Genetic
Phylogeny
Reproduction
Reproduction, Asexual
Sex
Sex Determination Analysis
Sex Ratio

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