Recombination Speeds Adaptation by Reducing Competition between Beneficial Mutations in Populations of Escherichia coli
Identification of the selective forces contributing to the origin and maintenance of sex is a fundamental problem in biology. The Fisher–Muller model proposes that sex is advantageous because it allows beneficial mutations that arise in different lineages to recombine, thereby reducing clonal interf...
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Public Library of Science
2007
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1950772/ |