Sex speeds adaptation by altering the dynamics of molecular evolution

Nature

Volumn 531, Issue 7593, 2016, Pages 233-236

  McDonald, Michael J ^a,b   Rice, Daniel P ^a,b   Desai, Michael M ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION GENETICS; SEX ALLOCATION; YEAST;

ARTICLE; BALANCING SELECTION; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC BACKGROUND; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUALITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPOROGENESIS; ADAPTATION; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CLONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEX; TIME FACTOR;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CLONE CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84960846818     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature17143     Document Type: Article

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