Article
Amitosis confers benefits of sex in the absence of sex to <i>Tetrahymena</i>
2019-10-07
Abstract excerpt
Sex appears to be the most successful reproductive strategy in eukaryotes despite its many costs. While a complete explanation for sex’s success remains elusive, several evolutionary benefits of sex have been identified. It is predicted that, by forgoing these benefits, asexual lineages are evolutionary dead-ends. Consistent with this prediction, many asexual lineages show signs of accelerated accumulation of dele...
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- Literature Corpus work
- eeefc416-d96f-55f1-a726-d389a8a1f06f
- DOI
- 10.1101/794735