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Gene conversion empowers natural selection in a clonal fish species

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By Edward S. Ricemeyer, Nathan Schaefer, Kang Du, Irene da Cruz, Susanne Kneitz, Rafael D. Acemel, Darío G. Lupiáñez, Rachel Carroll, Rosie Drinkwater, Manfred Schartl, Wesley Warren
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Abstract Sexual reproduction is ancient and ubiquitous despite its obvious disadvantages1. Theory predicts that the reassortment of alleles that results from sex is necessary for natural selection to act effectively on individual loci; therefore, a purely clonal organism should rapidly accumulate deleterious mutations and go extinct2,3,4.
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