The maintenance of sex by parasitism and mutation accumulation under epistatic fitness functions

Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 604-610

  Stephen Howard, R ^a   Lively, Curtis M ^b  

^a MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Host parasite coevolution; Muller's ratchet; Mutational deterministic hypothesis; Red Queen hypothesis; Sexual reproduction; Synergistic epistasis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS; SEX;

FITNESS; MODELLING; MUTATION; PARASITISM; SEX;

ANIMALIA; ANURA;

EID: 2642688636     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1998.tb01658.x     Document Type: Article

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