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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| Language: | EN |
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Nature Portfolio
2017
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| Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/307e7c6bf996478e9ada31e0622c43a3 |
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