Evolution of bacterial transformation: is sex with dead cells ever better than no sex at all?
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Evolution of bacterial transformation: is sex with dead cells ever better than no sex at all?
Computer simulations of bacterial transformation are used to show that, under a wide range of biologically reasonable assumptions, transforming populations undergoing deleterious mutation and selection have a higher mean fitness at equilibrium than asexual populations. The source of transforming DNA, the amount of DNA taken up by each transforming cell, and the relationship between number of mu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics
سال: 1988
ISSN: 1943-2631
DOI: 10.1093/genetics/119.1.213