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Deleterious mutations and the evolution of sexual reproduction.

Abstract

The origin and maintenance of sexual reproduction continues to be an important problem in evolutionary biology. If the deleterious mutation rate per genome per generation is greater than 1, then the greater efficiency of selection against these mutations in sexual populations may be responsible for the evolution of sex and related phenomena. In modern human populations detrimental mutations with small individual effects are probably accumulating faster than they are being eliminated by selection.

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Year: 1988 PMID： 3057385 DOI： 10.1038/336435a0

Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nature ISSN： 0028-0836 Impact factor: 49.962

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2. Pervasive compensatory adaptation in Escherichia coli.

Authors: F B Moore; D E Rozen; R E Lenski
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3. Estimation of parameters of deleterious mutations in partial selfing or partial outcrossing populations and in nonequilibrium populations.

Authors: J Li; H W Deng
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Deleterious mutations and the evolution of sexual reproduction.

1. The coevolution of cell senescence and diploid sexual reproduction in unicellular organisms.

2. Pervasive compensatory adaptation in Escherichia coli.

3. Estimation of parameters of deleterious mutations in partial selfing or partial outcrossing populations and in nonequilibrium populations.

4. Coevolution of costly mate choice and condition-dependent display of good genes.

5. Evolutionary route to diploidy and sex.

6. Recessive mutations and the maintenance of sex in structured populations.

7. Rates of nucleotide substitution in sexual and anciently asexual rotifers.

8. Epistasis and the mutation load: a measurement-theoretical approach.

9. The evolution of recombination in a heterogeneous environment.

10. The maintenance of sex in parasites.