Table of Contents
The population genetics of
sex and recombination
The cost of sex
Other costs
Paying the cost of sex
Sex need not increase diversity of offspring
Genetic variance in fitness
Recombination load
When is sex favoured?
Three-locus Model
ASIDE: Are sex and recombination interchangeable???
Fitness scheme
Relationship between disequilibrium and epistasis
Conditions under which increased sex evolves
Implications
Sex in a temporally variable environment
Sex in a spatially variable environment
Sex in small populations
Drift vs epistasis
Implications
Conclusions |
Author: Sarah Otto
Email: otto@zoology.ubc.ca
Home Page: www.zoology.ubc.ca/~otto
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