title: Experimental tests of the adaptive significance of sexual recombination.
abstract: Numerous theories have been proposed to explain the advantages of sexual recombination   the exchange of hereditary material between different genomes or homologous chromosomes. Many of these candidate benefits have been evaluated in controlled laboratory experiments, which, collectively, strongly indicate that sexual recombination provides important long-term advantages.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA. rice@lifesci.ucsb.edu
authors.forename: William R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Rice
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005260:Female; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009154:Mutation / Q000502:physiology*; D010802:Phylogeny; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D012098:Reproduction; D012641:Selection, Genetic; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D014960:X Chromosome; D014998:Y Chromosome