Selection acts upon genes linked together on chromosomes. This physical connection reduces the efficiency by which selection can act because, in the absence of sex, alleles must rise and fall together in frequency with the genome in which they are found. This selective interference underlies such phenomena as clonal interference and Muller's Ratchet and is broadly termed Hill-Robertson interference. In this review, I examine the potential for selective interference to account for the evolution and maintenance of sex, discussing the positive and negative evidence from both theoretical and empirical studies, and highlight the gaps that remain.

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选择性干涉与性的进化

选择作用于染色体上连接在一起的基因。这种物理联系降低了选择发挥作用的效率，因为在没有性别的情况下，等位基因必须与发现它们的基因组在频率上一起上升和下降。这种选择性干扰是克隆干扰和穆勒棘轮等现象的基础，广义上称为希尔-罗伯逊干扰。在这篇综述中，我研究了选择性干扰解释性进化和维持的可能性，讨论了理论和实证研究的正面和负面证据，并强调了仍然存在的差距。