Experimental tests of the adaptive significance of sexual recombination

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 241-251

  Rice, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CHROMOSOME; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROTIFERA; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VARIATION (GENETICS); X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ROTIFERA;

EID: 0036207383     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg760     Document Type: Review

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