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The maintenance of sex: Ronald Fisher meets the Red Queen

BACKGROUND: Sex in higher diploids carries a two-fold cost of males that should reduce its fitness relative to cloning, and result in its extinction. Instead, sex is widespread and clonal species face early obsolescence. One possible reason is that sex is an adaptation that allows organisms to respo...

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Autores principales: Green, David, Mason, Chris
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3765275/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23962342
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-174