The Evolutionary Advantage of Recombination.¶
Felsenstein, J. (1974). The Evolutionary Advantage of Recombination. Genetics, 78(2), 737-756.
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Primes¶
- Ratchet Effect
- The direction-asymmetric coupling is decisive: the least-loaded class (the genomes carrying the fewest mutations) can be lost by chance drift, but in an asexual lineage there is no mechanism to regenerate it — without recombination, you cannot recombine two moderately-loaded genomes into a less-loaded one.
This sourceCoins the term 'Muller's ratchet' and formalizes it, showing recombination as the unlatching mechanism — the structural argument for why sex persists despite its costs.
- The direction-asymmetric coupling is decisive: the least-loaded class (the genomes carrying the fewest mutations) can be lost by chance drift, but in an asexual lineage there is no mechanism to regenerate it — without recombination, you cannot recombine two moderately-loaded genomes into a less-loaded one.
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