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SUBMITTER: Omilian AR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1693715 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Omilian Angela R AR Cristescu Melania E A ME Dudycha Jeffry L JL Lynch Michael M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20061122 49
Despite the enormous theoretical attention given to the evolutionary consequences of sexual reproduction, the validity of the key assumptions on which the theory depends rarely has been evaluated. It is often argued that a reduced ability to purge deleterious mutations condemns asexual lineages to an early extinction. However, most well characterized asexual lineages fail to exhibit the high levels of neutral allelic divergence expected in the absence of recombination. With purely descriptive da ...[more]