An Empirical Approach to Understanding the Relationship Between Recombination and Fitness

The persistence of sex is a recurrent conundrum in evolutionary biology because sex is costly. These costs may be accounted for by looking at the outcome of sex, namely that sex causes genetic mixing. Recombination is one of the processes by which sex causes genetic mixing; determining when recombin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tedman-Aucoin, Katherine
Other Authors: Agrawal, Aneil
Format: Others
Language:en_ca
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/17230