Meiotic drive and evolution of female choice

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1426, 1999, Pages 1341-1345

  Reinhold, K ^a   Engqvist, L ^a   Misof, B ^a   Kurtz, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drive resistance; Numeric simulation; Population genetics; Selfish genes; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL INHERITANCE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC MODEL; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SIMULATION;

EID: 0033532972     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0785     Document Type: Article

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