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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...
Autores principales: | Gibson, Amanda K., Delph, Lynda F., Lively, Curtis M. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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