Sex, parasitic DNA and adaptation in experimental populations of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
The widespread occurrence among eukaryotes of sex and of mobile DNA sequences requires an evolutionary explanation, since both appear to reduce individual fitness. Both phenomena have been hypothesized to provide fitness advantages to populations, but such explanations require rather than explain th...
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McGill University
1996
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| Online Access: | http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40475 |