Charlesworth Brian
Institute for Cell, Animal and Population Biology, Ashworth Laboratories, University of Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, Edinburgh, UK.
Curr Biol. 2002 Jan 22;12(2):R56-8. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(01)00673-x.
The evolutionary significance of sexual reproduction and genetic recombination is a long-standing puzzle. Some recent experiments on Drosophila show that a lack of recombination can impede adaptive evolution.