The costs and benefits of sex: New insights from old asexual lineages

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 311-317

  Butlin, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROTIFERA; AGE; CELL LINEAGE; CROSS BREEDING; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; REPRODUCTION;

AGE FACTORS; CELL LINEAGE; CROSSES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; GENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036203924     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg749     Document Type: Review

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