Why are equally sized gametes so rare? The instability of isogamy and the cost of anisogamy

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 769-784

  Matsuda, Hiroyuki ^a   Abrams, Peter A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisogamy; Convergence stability, cost of sex; Dimorphism; Evolutionary stability; Isogamy; Mathematical model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000007851     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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