Fitness of alternative modes of reproduction: Developmental constraints and the evolutionary maintenance of sex

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1418, 1999, Pages 471-476

  Corley, Laura S ^a   Moore, Allen J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Facultative parthenogenesis; Life history; Within population comparison

Indexed keywords

COCKROACH; FITNESS; PARTHENOGENESIS; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COCKROACH; FEMALE; FITNESS; INSECT; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY;

ANIMALIA; BLABERIDAE; BLATTARIA; DICTYOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; NAUPHOETA CINEREA; ORTHOPTEROIDEA;

EID: 0033531437     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0661     Document Type: Article

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