Imperfect genes, Fisherian mutation and the evolution of sex

Genetics

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1171-1199

  Peck, Joel R ^a   Barreau, Guillaume ^a   Heath, Simon C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; GENES; GENES, PLANT; HERMAPHRODITISM; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX;

EID: 0030888873     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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