Abstract:
:Despite the enormous theoretical attention given to the evolutionary consequences of sexual reproduction, the validity of the key assumptions on which the theory depends rarely has been evaluated. It is often argued that a reduced ability to purge deleterious mutations condemns asexual lineages to an early extinction. However, most well characterized asexual lineages fail to exhibit the high levels of neutral allelic divergence expected in the absence of recombination. With purely descriptive data, it is difficult to evaluate whether this pattern is a consequence of the rapid demise of asexual lineages, an unusual degree of mutational stability, or recombination. Here, we show in mutation-accumulation lines of asexual Daphnia that the rate of loss of nucleotide heterozygosity by ameiotic recombination is substantially greater than the rate of introduction of new variation by mutation. This suggests that the evolutionary potential of asexual diploid species is not only a matter of mutation accumulation and reduced efficiency of selection, and [corrected] it underscores the limited utility of using neutral allelic divergence as an indicator of ancient asexuality.
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S Aauthors
Omilian AR,Cristescu ME,Dudycha JL,Lynch Mdoi
10.1073/pnas.0606435103subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2006-12-05 00:00:00pages
18638-43issue
49eissn
0027-8424issn
1091-6490pii
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103pub_type
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