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FREE ENERGY CONSUMPTION. "On the basis of the 2nd law of thermodynamics we find that both sexual and asexual reproduction can be regarded as a means to consume free energy in least time." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303264712001700 View in LinkedIn

MEIOSIS is needed to keep the chromosome number the same in diploid sexual creatures from one generation to the next. https://lnkd.in/dGqaW47 View in LinkedIn

MEIOSIS is at the heart of longevity and only occurs in sexual creatures. http://www.bu.edu/gk12/sully/AsexualLessonKey.pdf View in LinkedIn

FITNESS ADVANTAGE OF SEX. "The observed advantage in fitness of naturally occurring, sexually derived genotypes over asexually derived genotypes during adaptation reaches 30%–50%, but this underestimates the difference in fitness between “high-sex” genotypes and “low-sex” genotypes." https://lnkd.in/ePUmiA8 View in LinkedIn

ALLELE DIVERGENCE. "Though sex does not immediately affect allele frequencies, it alters the genetic variance, which allows subsequent selection to cause allele frequencies to diverge between more versus less sexual lineages." https://lnkd.in/ePUmiA8 View in LinkedIn

SEX WINS. "The redistribution of alleles through sex can result in the variance of sexually derived offspring being different (higher or lower) than that of asexually derived offspring." https://lnkd.in/ePUmiA8 View in LinkedIn

RECOMBINATION. "The evolution of recombination is not the same as the evolution of sex." https://lnkd.in/ePUmiA8 View in LinkedIn

NOVEL GENE SETS. "Genetic recombination is the production of offspring with combinations of traits that differ from those found in either parent. In eukaryotes, genetic recombination during meiosis can lead to a novel set of genetic information that can be passed on from the parents to the offspring." https://lnkd.in/egNsFFi View in LinkedIn

SEX AND TRAIT SELECTION. "Better support for adaptation providing a “gene-level” advantage to sex comes from survey studies showing that recombination tends to increase as an incidental by-product of directional selection on other traits." https://lnkd.in/ePUmiA8 View in LinkedIn

RED QUEEN "is an allusion to Lewis Carroll’s novel Through the Looking Glass in which the character the Red Queen must run as fast as she can just to stay in the same place, and in the evolutionary analogy sexual reproduction enables organisms to just keep ahead in the co-evolutionary race with the pathogens that afflict them." http://www.mycologia.org/content/105/1/1.full View in LinkedIn