The ecology and genetics of fitness in Chlamydomonas. VII. The effect of sex on the variance in fitness and mean fitness

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1705-1713

  Da Silva, Jack ^a,b   Bell, Graham ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; fitness; genetic variance in fitness; mutation selection equilibrium; outcrossing; recombination; sex

Indexed keywords

CHLAMYDOMONAS;

EID: 0029800229     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb03942.x     Document Type: Article

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