Heterozygosity, heteromorphy, and phylogenetic trees in asexual eukaryotes.

doi:10.1093/genetics/144.1.427

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Heterozygosity, heteromorphy, and phylogenetic trees in asexual eukaryotes.

Genetics - 1 Sept 1996

Birky C W

Abstract excerpt

Little attention has been paid to the consequences of long-term asexual reproduction for sequence evolution in diploid or polyploid eukaryotic organisms. Some elementary theory shows that the amount of neutral sequence divergence between two alleles of a protein-coding gene in an asexual individu...

Topics

Eukaryotic Cells
Haploidy
Heterozygote
Mitosis
Models, Genetic
Phenotype
Phylogeny
Polyploidy
Recombination, Genetic
Reproduction, Asexual
Selection, Genetic

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