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Meiotic Error-Correction: How sexual reproduction may facilitate a trans-generational repair mechanism that can bias meiotic gene conversion against new mutations and in favor of ancestral alleles
2017-06-28
Abstract excerpt
Highly conserved DNA (where selection has most consistently punished variation) is comprised of elements of life’s code where mutations pose an especially highly risk. Thus, any difference between homologous chromosomes in these regions can warn of a potentially dangerous mutation; yet this warning is of little use to an organism, unless it can find some way to discern which of the two strands (paternal or materna...
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- 10.7287/peerj.preprints.3054v2