The costs of sex due to deleterious intracellular parasites

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 177-183

  Hastings, I M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Costs; Parasites; Selfish; Sex

Indexed keywords

COST; ENDOPARASITE; PARASITISM; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

EID: 0032954663     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1420-9101.1999.00019.x     Document Type: Article

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