Bast, Jens
[VerfasserIn]
;
Schäfer, Marina
[AkademischeR BetreuerIn];
Scheu, Stefan
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Maraun, Mark
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
Transposable elements in sexual and asexual animals
Beschreibung:
The prevalence of sexual reproduction among eukaryotes despite its marked disadvantages is one of the most elusive problems in evolutionary biology. The observation that most asexual eukaryotes are recent offshoots scattered throughout the eukaryotic tree of life has led to the common assumption that asexual species are bound for early extinction. Numerous ecological and genetic models seek to explain this pattern. One prominent set of models predict that mutation accumulation leads to the extinction of asexual lineages. Even so, for mutation accumulation to outweigh the cost of sex, these ...