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Selection in males purges the mutation load on female fitness

Theory predicts that the ability of selection and recombination to purge mutation load is enhanced if selection against deleterious genetic variants operates more strongly in males than females. However, direct empirical support for this tenet is limited, in part because traditional quantitative gen...

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Autores principales: Grieshop, Karl, Maurizio, Paul L., Arnqvist, Göran, Berger, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8327962/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34367659
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evl3.239