Evolution of Sexual Reproduction: Importance of DNA Repair, Complementation, and Variation

The genetical theory of natural selection

1930 • 17,330 citations

An introduction to population genetics theory

1970 • 4,120 citations

Adaptation and Natural Selection

2008 • 4,032 citations

The Evolution of Sex

1978 • 3,074 citations

THE EVOLUTIONARY ADVANTAGE OF RECOMBINATION

1974 • 1,737 citations

POLLEN-OVULE RATIOS: A CONSERVATIVE INDICATOR OF BREEDING SYSTEMS IN FLOWERING PLANTS

1977 • 1,406 citations

Some Genetic Aspects of Sex

1932 • 1,265 citations

Discontinuities in the DNA synthesized in an Excision-defective strain of Escherichia coli following ultraviolet irradiation

1968 • 1,089 citations

On the structure of the folded chromosome of Escherichia coli

1972 • 635 citations

Exchanges between DNA strands in ultraviolet-irradiated Escherichia coli

1971 • 582 citations

Mode of reproduction of higher plants

1957 • 406 citations

Apomixis in higher plants

1946 • 252 citations

Ultraviolet selection pressure on the earliest organisms

1973 • 250 citations

Repair of DNA double-strand breaks in Escherichia coli, which requires recA function and the presence of a duplicate genome

1977 • 240 citations

Natural Selection and Mutability

1970 • 218 citations

SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX AND CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE

1975 • 188 citations

The Evolution of the Earliest Cells

1978 • 165 citations

THE EVOLUTIONARY ADVANTAGE OF RECOMBINATION. II. INDIVIDUAL SELECTION FOR RECOMBINATION

1976 • 163 citations

Mechanism of ultraviolet-induced mutagenesis: Extent and fidelity of in vitro DNA synthesis on irradiated templates

1978 • 160 citations

What Determines the Rate of Evolution?

1976 • 156 citations

Probing DNA Replication Mechanisms with the T4 Bacteriophage In Vitro System

1979 • 149 citations

Visualization of prokaryotic DNA in a regularly condensed chromatin-like fiber.

1976 • 144 citations

SELECTION FOR HIGH MUTATION RATES IN CHEMOSTATS

1974 • 142 citations

Why reproduce sexually?

1973 • 136 citations

The evolution of mutation rates.

1973 • 134 citations

ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT INDUCED LINKING OF DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID STRANDS AND ITS REVERSAL BY PHOTOREACTIVATING ENZYME

1961 • 126 citations

A genetic map of poliovirus temperature-sensitive mutants

1968 • 124 citations

Precambrian Eukaryotic Organisms: A Reassessment of the Evidence

1975 • 108 citations

Optimum mutation rate and degree of dominance as determined by the principle of minimum genetic load

1960 • 103 citations

Special Adaptive Problems Associated with Unisexual Fishes

1971 • 102 citations

Apomixis in the angiosperms

1967 • 93 citations

Gene Exchange and Natural Selection Cause Bacillus subtilis to Evolve in Soil Culture

1979 • 90 citations

Nonrandom nature of in vivo methylation of dimethylnitrosamine and the subsequent removal of methylated products from rat liver chromatin DNA.

1976 • 89 citations

Evolution of Genome Size by DNA Doublings

1976 • 87 citations

Control of mutation frequency by bacteriophage T4 DNA polymerase. I. The CB120 antimutator DNA polymerase is defective in strand displacement.

1976 • 84 citations

FANCONI'S ANEMIA A CONDITION POSSIBLY ASSOCIATED WITH A DEFECTIVE DNA REPAIR

1978 • 70 citations

THE EFFECTS OF HITCHHIKING ON A GENE FOR RECOMBINATION

1976 • 58 citations

Germ line recombination may be primarily a manifestation of DNA repair processes

1977 • 48 citations

Non-random nature of in vivo interaction of 3H-N-hydroxy-2-acetylaminofluoreneand its subsequent removal from rat liver chromatin-DNA

1976 • 34 citations

Why Are Babies Young?: Meiosis May Prevent Aging of the Germ Line

1979 • 28 citations

Multiplicity reactivation and repair of nitrous acid-induced lesions in bacteriophage T4

1977 • 23 citations

2,5-Dimethylfuran from ≈2.7 × 10 ⁹ -year-old Rupemba—Belingwe stromatolite, Rhodesia: Potential evidence for remnants of carbohydrates

1979 • 22 citations

Role of DNA Repair in Aging

1976 • 17 citations

ON THE MECHANISM FOR REPAIR OF CROSS-LINKED DNA IN E. coli TREATED WITH PSORALEN AND LIGHT

1978 • 17 citations

Mutator effects of alleles of phage T4 genes 32, 41, 44, and 45 in the presence of an antimutator polymerase

1979 • 15 citations

On the significance of tetrahedral tetrads of Precambrian algal cells

1976 • 14 citations

The evolution of sexual reproduction as a repair mechanism. Part I. A model for self-repair and its biological implications

1978 • 13 citations

ON THE PRESENCE OF UV-ENDONUCLEASE SENSITIVE SITES IN DAUGHTER DNA OF UV-IRRADIATED MAMMALIAN CELLS

1978 • 9 citations

ENZYMATIC PATHWAYS OF DAMAGED NUCLEOTIDE EXCISION

1978 • 7 citations