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Genetic consequences of variation in sib maturation schedules

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Implications of variance in the time at which sibs become mature are considered, particularly with respect to the fragmentation of a parental genome over time. It is concluded that regardless of the adaptive derivation of various intra-sibship maturation schedules, they each have important genetic consequences.

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Thorne, B.L. Genetic consequences of variation in sib maturation schedules. Acta Biotheor 30, 219–227 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00051768

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