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Prevalence of loss-of-function alleles does not correlate with lifetime fecundity and other life-history traits in metazoans

BACKGROUND: Natural selection is possible only because all species produce more offsprings than what is needed to maintain the population. Still, the lifetime number of offspring varies widely across species. One may expect natural selection to be stronger in high-fecundity species. Alternatively, n...

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Autores principales: Bezmenova, Aleksandra V., Bazykin, Georgii A., Kondrashov, Alexey S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5834895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29499764
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13062-018-0206-9