DNA repair as the primary adaptive function of sex in bacteria and eukaryotes

DNA Repair: New Research

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-50

  Bernstein, Harris ^a   Bernstein, Carol ^a   Michod, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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