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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |