Limited dispersal, deleterious mutations and the evolution of sex

Genetics

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1053-1060

  Peck, Joel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX;

EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, GENETIC; PLANTS;

EID: 0029896926     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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