Genetic diversity in populations of asex
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Alessandro Grapputo; Tomi Kumpulainen; Johanna Mappes; Silja Parri
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Article
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2005
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BioMed Central
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English
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## Background Despite the two-fold cost of sex, most of the higher animals reproduce sexually. The advantage of sex has been suggested to be its ability, through recombination, to generate greater genetic diversity than asexuality, thus enhancing adaptation in a changing environment. We studied the