Effective purifying selection in ancient asexual oribatid mites

Asexual reproduction is thought to be an evolutionary dead end in eukaryotes because deleterious mutations will not be purged effectively. Here, Brandt and colleagues show that anciently asexual oribatid mites in fact have reduced accumulation of deleterious mutations compared to their sexual relati...

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Autores principales: Alexander Brandt, Ina Schaefer, Julien Glanz, Tanja Schwander, Mark Maraun, Stefan Scheu, Jens Bast
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/307e7c6bf996478e9ada31e0622c43a3
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