Perspective: Sex, recombination, and the efficacy of selection - Was Weismann right?

Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 337-351

  Burt, Austin ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution; Fitness variation; Genetic systems; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CROSSING OVER; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MITOSIS; MODEL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NATURAL SELECTION; SEX; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EVOLUTION; SELECTION; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

EID: 0034020551     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000.tb00038.x     Document Type: Review

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