The maintenance of sexual reproduction in a structured population

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1431, 1999, Pages 1857-1863

  Peck, Joel R ^a   Yearsley, Jonathan ^b   Barreau, Guillaume ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asexual reproduction; Evolution of sex; Genetic drift; Population genetics; Structured populations; Theory

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; COMPETITION; POPULATION MODELING; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DRIFT; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 0033595581     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0857     Document Type: Article

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