An Evolutionary Advantage of Haploidy in Large Yeast Populations
An Evolutionary Advantage of Haploidy in Large Yeast Populations
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Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Although seed plants and multicellular animals are predominantly diploid, the prominence of diploidy varies greatly among eukaryote life cycles, and no general evolutionary advantage of diploidy has been demonstrated. By doubling the copy number of each gene, diploidy may increase the rate at which adaptive mutations are produced. However, models s...
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An Evolutionary Advantage of Haploidy in Large Yeast Populations
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_743356219
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0036-8075
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1095-9203
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10.1126/science.1078417
