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M Neiman
Evolutionary Biology
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Can resource costs of polyploidy provide an advantage to sex?
The predominance of sexual reproduction despite its costs indicates that sex provides substantial benefits, which are usually thought to derive from the direct genetic consequences of recombination and syngamy...
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Male offspring production by asexual Potamopyrgus antipodarum, a New Zealand snail
As only females contribute directly to population growth, sexual females investing equally in sons and daughters experience a two-fold cost relative to asexuals producing only daughters. Typically, researchers...
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The conversion of variance and the evolutionary potential of restricted recombination
Genetic recombination is usually considered to facilitate adaptive evolution. However, recombination prevents the reliable cotransmission of interacting gene combinations and can disrupt complexes of coadapted...
