The ecological cost of sex

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6775, 2000, Pages 281-285

  Doncaster, C Patrick ^a   Pound, Graeme E ^a   Cox, Simon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; EVOLUTION; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SEX;

EID: 0034673763     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35005078     Document Type: Article

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