Vegetative incompatibility in ascomycetes: Highly polymorphic but selectively neutral?

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 67-76

  Nauta, Maarten J ^a,b   Hoekstra, Rolf F ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CELL FUSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; MATING TYPE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 0030574256     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1996.0202     Document Type: Article

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