Why sex? Putting theory to the test

Science

Volumn 281, Issue 5385, 1998, Pages 1980-1982

  Wuethrich, B ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; COPULATION; EVOLUTION; FERTILIZATION; FLY; GENE MUTATION; MATING; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SNAIL; THEORY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; ROTIFERA; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX;

EID: 0032566580     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5385.1980     Document Type: Note

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