Testing the pluralist approach to sex: the influence of environment on synergistic interactions between mutation load and parasitism in Daphnia magna.

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Both deleterious mutations and parasites have been acknowledged as potential selective forces responsible for the evolutionary maintenance of sexual reproduction. The pluralist approach to sex proposes that these two factors may have to interact synergistically in order to stabilize sex, and one of the simplest ways this could occur is if parasites are capable of causing synergistic epistasis between mutations in their hosts. However, the effects of both deleterious mutations and parasitism a...

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Authors: Killick, S; Carlsson, A; West, SA; Little, T

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Journal of evolutionary biology
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 1603-1611
• Publication date: 2006-09-01
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01123.x
• EISSN: 1420-9101
• ISSN: 1010-061X
• Language: English
• Keywords: Animals; Food; Epistasis, Genetic; Mutagenesis; Reproduction; Environment; Bacteria; Mutation; Bacterial Physiological Phenomena; Genotype; Sexual Behavior, Animal; Temperature; Host-Parasite Interactions; Daphnia