Sex, amitosis, and evolvability in the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila
J. A. Tarkington, H. Zhang, R. Azevedo, R. Zufall
The paper tests whether amitosis in Tetrahymena thermophila increases evolvability by comparing adaptation rates in populations founded by sexual progeny versus non-sexual ones.
bioRxiv · Dec 21, 2021Evolutionary Biology