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Testing explanations of sexual reproduction

Reference	JF11158
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Stuart West
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	University of Edinburgh
Department	Inst of Cell, Animal and Population Biol
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	195,121
Status	Completed
Type	Fellowships
Start date	01/08/1998
End date	01/10/2002
Duration	50 months

Abstract

The objectives of the proposed research programme are to determine: 1) Whether sex facilities adapt to a new environment; 2) whether the amount of sex will increase as a correlated response to selection against deleterious mutations; 3) the deleterious mutation rate per genome per generation, and whether it differs between individuals; 4) whether there is synergistic epistasis between deleterious mutations; 5) the coefficient of dominance of deleterious mutations, and 6) whether environmental and mutational factors interact synergistically in their fitness consequences.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Genes & Developmental Biology (GDB)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	Fellowship - David Phillips Fellowship (DF) [1995-2015]
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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