The mutational decay of male and hermaphrodite competitive fitness in the androdioecious nematode C. elegans, in which males are naturally rare
S.-D. Yeh, A. Saxena, T. Crombie, D. Feistel, L. M. Johnson, I. Lam, J. Lam, S. Saber, C. F. Baer
The paper estimates mutational effects on male and hermaphrodite competitive fitness in C. elegans, finding males decay faster due to higher mutation rates and mating variability.
bioRxiv · Mar 9, 2017Evolutionary Biology