Sex increases the efficacy of natural selection in experimental yeast populations.
Why sex evolved and persists is a problem for evolutionary biology, because sex disrupts favourable gene combinations and requires an expenditure of time and energy. Further, in organisms with unequal-sized gametes, the female transmits her genes at only half the rate of an asexual equivalent (the t...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2005
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