Evolutionary vestigialization of sex in a clonal plant: Selection versus neutral mutation in geographically peripheral populations

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1555, 2004, Pages 2375-2380

  Dorken, Marcel E ^a   Neville, Kathryn J ^b   Eckert, Christopher G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antagonistic pleiotropy; Asexuality; Clonal reproduction; Decodon verticillatus; Neutral mutation; Selection

Indexed keywords

CLONAL ORGANISM; EVOLUTION; MUTATION; SELECTION;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC TRAIT; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; MUTATION; OVERWINTERING; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC SELECTION; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LYTHRACEAE; SEX; UNITED STATES;

DECODON VERTICILLATUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMASS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DRIFT; GEOGRAPHY; LYTHRACEAE; NEW ENGLAND; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX;

EID: 16644369015     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2875     Document Type: Article

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