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Topic: RE: Sex, Death, and the Red Queen

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erpiu erplusplusgmail.com Oktober 23^th 2011 19:17:20	RE: Sex, Death, and the Red Queen ( Posts: 1; New Posts: 1 ) [ See: ComDig 2011.13 ] yeah. these ingenious experimentalists crippled first the worms with a hefty dose of mutagens so that the selfers became immediately homozygous for all kind of nasty mutations (while the sexuals purged the mutations through segregation). then the bacteria had a great time trashing the crippled selfers that for sure started with compromised innate immunity, but had a much harder time with the outcrossers since these started with strong wildtype innate immunity. chapeau to the authors though, since i too would do anything to get published (and avoid perishing)! and congrats to the hyper-expert reviewers ! ;)

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Oktober 23^th 2011 19:17:20

RE: Sex, Death, and the Red Queen

( Posts: 1; New Posts: 1 ) [ See: ComDig 2011.13 ]

yeah. these ingenious experimentalists crippled first the worms with a hefty dose of mutagens so that the selfers became immediately homozygous for all kind of nasty mutations (while the sexuals purged the mutations through segregation). then the bacteria had a great time trashing the crippled selfers that for sure started with compromised innate immunity, but had a much harder time with the outcrossers since these started with strong wildtype innate immunity. chapeau to the authors though, since i too would do anything to get published (and avoid perishing)! and congrats to the hyper-expert reviewers ! ;)