The Red Queen and the persistence of linkage-disequilibrium oscillations in finite and infinite populations
Open Access
- 1 January 2007
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Ecology and Evolution
- Vol. 7 (1) , 211
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-211
Abstract
The Red Queen Hypothesis (RQH) suggests that the coevolutionary dynamics of host-parasite systems can generate selection for increased host recombination. Since host-parasite interactions often have a strong genetic basis, recombination between different hosts can increase the fraction of novel and potentially resistant offspring genotypes. A prerequisite for this mechanism is that host-parasite interactions generate persistent oscillations of linkage disequilibria (LD).Keywords
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