Before crossing over: The advantages of eukaryotic sex in genomes lacking chiasmatic recombination

Genetical Research

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 7-25

  Antezana, Marcos A ^a,b   Hudson, Richard R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CROSSING OVER; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; SEX;

CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MATHEMATICS; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0030661941     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672397002875     Document Type: Article

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