An hypothesis to account for the maintenance of sex within populations
An hypothesis to account for the maintenance of sex within populations
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解释种群内性别维持的假设
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1978
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J. Jaenike
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作者:
J. Jaenike
Two approaches to the problem of the evol-utionary signlficance of sexual reproduct ion have been taken. The quest lon of whether or not sex faci l i tates faster evolut ion was the f i rst considered (Fisher, 1930; Mu1_ler, Ig32) and has received the most attent ion. Felsenstein (L974) and Thompson ( l -976) have presented lucid reviews of the history of ideas on this quest ion. This approach to sex is group-select ionist , as the benef l ts of sex, i f any, accrue only-over rel-at ively great spans of t ime. The second approach is dlrected to the questlon, llhy is sex retained within popul-ations? It must be remembered that sexual reproduction entalls a two-fold cost of meiosis (Maynard Smith, 1971), a recomblnat ionalload for well-adapted genotyPes, through hornogenization viith the gene pool of the popul-at lon (Lewontin, L97L; w11L1aurs, L975) as we1l as subsidiary costs, such as product ion of nectar (Sol-br i-g, L976). WiLllams (L975), especially, has championed the view that the adaptive value of sex must be sought at the level of the lndividual. In support of this, he ci tes the existence of specles in which both sexual and asexual" reproduction occur. Maynard Srnlth (1-976) points out that rates of recombinat,ion, whieh is somewhat analogous to sex, are varl-able and selectable in naturalpopulat{ons.