Maintenance of sex-linked deleterious alleles by selfing and group selection in metapopulations of the phytopathogenic fungus Microbotryum violaceum

American Naturalist

Volumn 165, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 577-589

  Tellier, Aurélien ^a   Villaréal, Lorys M M A ^a   Giraud, Tatiana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Disease transmission; Parasites; Population level selection; Protected polymorphism; Transmission rate; Virulence

Indexed keywords

AUTOGAMY; FUNGAL DISEASE; GROUP SELECTION; METAPOPULATION; VIRULENCE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BASIDIOMYCETES; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SILENE;

ALLELES; BASIDIOMYCOTA; MODELS, GENETIC; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SILENE;

CARYOPHYLLACEAE; FUNGI; MICROBOTRYUM VIOLACEUM; SILENE; SILENE LATIFOLIA;

EID: 17644425709     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/428680     Document Type: Article

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