Sex accelerates adaptation

Matthew R. Goddard ()
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Matthew R. Goddard: Matthew R. Goddard is at the School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, Lincoln LN6 7TS, UK, and at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Nature, 2016, vol. 531, issue 7593, 176-177

Abstract: An analysis confirms the long-standing theory that sex increases the rate of adaptive evolution by accelerating the speed at which beneficial mutations sweep through sexual, as opposed to asexual, populations. See Letter p.233

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1038/nature17304

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