Why the genome does not congeal
- 1 August 1977
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 268 (5622) , 693-696
- https://doi.org/10.1038/268693a0
Abstract
Since the genes in any given organism have evolved together to produce an adaptive phenotype, one might expect that rearrangement by chromosomal recombination would be maladaptive and thus wiped out by natural selection. Various theories are reviewed that explain why recombination is almost universal.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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