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The function of mate choice in sticklebacks: optimizing Mhc genetics*

2003-12-01

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Sexual reproduction is an evolutionary ‘puzzle’. A sexual female ‘throws away’ half of her genes (during meiosis), and ‘fills up’ what she lost with genes from a male. Thus, sexual reproduction can only be successful if the offspring with the new mixture of genes should be more than twice as fit as if she had just made a copy of herself. A challenging hypothesis assumes that infectious diseases select for females...

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Literature Corpus work: 439a3a0d-676e-5c76-8a8d-7340f68667e7
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2003.00215.x

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