No evidence for accumulation of deleterious mutations and fitness degradation in clonal fish hybrids: Abandoning sex without regrets
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DOI: 10.1111/mec.15539
Abstract: Despite its inherent costs, sexual reproduction is ubiquitous in nature, and the mechanisms to protect it from a competitive displacement by asexuality remain unclear. Popular mutation‐based explanations, like the Muller's ratchet and the Kondrashov's hatchet,… read more here.
Keywords: degradation; accumulation; evidence; deleterious mutations ... See more keywords