Death by asexuality: Biologists uncover new path for mutations to arise
Tuesday, September 3, 2013 - 18:50
in Biology & Nature
Ground-breaking new research from a team of evolutionary biologists shows for the first time how asexual lineages of a species are doomed not necessarily from a long, slow accumulation of new mutations, but rather from fast-paced gene conversion processes that simply unmask pre-existing deleterious recessive mutations.