Sex releases the speed limit on evolution

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6916, 2002, Pages 664-666

  Colegrave, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MUTAGENESIS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY;

BIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; POPULATION SIZE; SEX DETERMINATION;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX; STOCHASTIC MODEL; ANIMAL; CELL CLONE; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICS; TIME;

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA; PROTOZOA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CLONE CELLS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037069686     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01191     Document Type: Article

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