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The effect of parasite infection on the recombination rate of the mosquito Aedes aegypti

Sexual reproduction and meiotic recombination generate new genetic combinations and may thereby help an individual infected by a parasite to protect its offspring from being infected. While this idea is often used to understand the evolutionary forces underlying the maintenance of sex and recombinat...

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Autores principales: Zilio, Giacomo, Moesch, Lea, Bovet, Nathalie, Sarr, Anouk, Koella, Jacob C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6177114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30300349
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203481