Muller's Ratchet and Gene Duplication

F Freund, J Wirtz, Y Zheng, Y Schaefer, T Wiehe - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Copy number of genes in gene families can be highly variable among individuals and may
continue to change across generations. Here, we study a model of duplication-selection …

[PDF][PDF] Natural selection promotes the evolution of recombination 2: during the selective process

PJ Gerrish, F Cordero, B Galeota-Sprung… - Physical Review E In …, 2021 - scholar.archive.org
The ubiquity of genetic mixing in nature has eluded unified explanation since the time of
Darwin. Conditions that promote the evolution of genetic mixing (recombination) are fairly …

Natural selection promotes the evolution of recombination 2: during the process of natural selection

PJ Gerrish, F Cordero, B Galeota-Sprung, A Colato… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
The ubiquity of sex and recombination in nature has eluded unified explanation since the
time of Darwin. Conditions that promote the evolution of recombination, broadly defined as …

Natural selection promotes the evolution of recombination 1: between the products of natural selection

PJ Gerrish, B Galeota-Sprung, P Sniegowski, A Colato… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Shuffling one's genetic material with another individual seems a risky endeavor more likely
to decrease than to increase offspring fitness. This intuitive argument is commonly employed …