An experimental demonstration of Fisher's principle: Evolution of sexual proportion by natural selection

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 719-731

  Carvalho, Antonio Bernardo ^a   Sampaio, Michelle Cristina ^a   Varandas, Flavia Roque ^a   Klaczko, Louis Bernard ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX RATIO; TIME FACTORS;

DROSOPHILA MEDIOPUNCTATA; MARTES PENNANTI; REPTILIA;

EID: 0031935257     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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