“LACK OF RECOMBINATION among most genes carried on Y or W chromosomes reduces the ability of selection to fix favourable mutations and to prevent the fixation of deleterious ones, due to Hill–Robertson interference among completely linked loci (hitch-hiking processes).”
http://www.nature.com/hdy/journal/v95/n2/full/6800697a.html
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022