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The two‐fold cost of sex: Experimental evidence from a natural system

Over four decades ago, John Maynard Smith showed that a mutation causing asexual reproduction should rapidly spread in a dioecious sexual population. His reasoning was that the per‐capita birth rate of an asexual population would exceed that of a sexual population, because asexual females do not inv...

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Autores principales: Gibson, Amanda K., Delph, Lynda F., Lively, Curtis M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6089407/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30233811
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evl3.1