| Can resource costs of polyploidy provide an advantage to sex? | |
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PMID: 23188174 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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The predominance of sexual reproduction despite its costs indicates that sex provides substantial benefits, which are usually thought to derive from the direct genetic consequences of recombination and syngamy. While genetic benefits of sex are certainly important, sexual and asexual individuals, lineages, or populations may also differ in physiological and life history traits that could influence outcomes of competition between sexuals and asexuals across environmental gradients. Here, we address possible phenotypic costs of a very common correlate of asexuality, polyploidy. We suggest that polyploidy could confer resource costs related to the dietary phosphorus demands of nucleic acid production; such costs could facilitate the persistence of sex in situations where asexual taxa are of higher ploidy level and phosphorus availability limits important traits like growth and reproduction. We outline predictions regarding the distribution of diploid sexual and polyploid asexual taxa across biogeochemical gradients and provide suggestions for study systems and empirical approaches for testing elements of our hypothesis.Heredity advance online publication, 28 November 2012; doi:10.1038/hdy.2012.78. |
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M Neiman; A D Kay; A C Krist |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-11-28 |
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Title: Heredity Volume: - ISSN: 1365-2540 ISO Abbreviation: Heredity (Edinb) Publication Date: 2012 Nov |
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Created Date: 2012-11-28 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0373007 Medline TA: Heredity (Edinb) Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA. |
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