From: CurtAdams (CurtAdams@aol.com)
Date: Wed Dec 17 1997 - 17:09:28 MST
In a message dated 12/17/97 4:02:36 PM, geoffs@unixg.ubc.ca wrote:
>Also, sex can get rid of recessive genetic defects.
Meotic selfing, not sex, is best at getting rid of deleterious
recessives. In a selfing population with a lethal recessive
the incidence of the gene drops by nearly 1/2 every generation.
With sex, once the incidence gets low, the recessive almost
never manifests and it can exist until drift gets rid of it.
Sex is good at *hiding* deleterious recessives.
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