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by Jonathan B Weitzman

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Evolving without sex

Some asexual fungi have evolved distinct genomes within a single individual, accumulating mutations without the need for recombination.

Email: Jonathan B Weitzman - jonathanweitzman@hotmail.com
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20011218-01

Published

18 December 2001

Arbuscular mycorhizal fungi, which have lived for 400 million years without sex, present a challenge to evolutionary theories about the role of sex. In the December 13 Nature Gerrit Kuhn and colleagues at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, discuss genetic variation within Arbuscular mycorhizal fungus individuals, which contain hundreds of inherited nuclei (Nature 2001, 414:745-748).

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