Interference among deleterious mutations favours sex and recombination in finite populations

Nature

Volumn 443, Issue 7107, 2006, Pages 89-92

  Keightley, Peter D ^a   Otto, Sarah P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ADAPTIVE MUTATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIANCE; MUTANT ALLELES;

BIODIVERSITY;

ALLELE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; RECOMBINATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CHROMOSOME; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX;

EID: 33748428600     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05049     Document Type: Article

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