Resolving the paradox of sex and recombination

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 252-261

  Otto, Sarah P ^a   Lenormand, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANEUPLOIDY; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; INBREEDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0036209507     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg761     Document Type: Review

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