Cost of interacting with sexual partners in a facultative sexual microbe

Genetics

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1597-1604

  Xu, Jianping ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HAINAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; FUNGUS; FUNGUS SPORE; MATING; MATING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; ZYGOTE;

CELL COUNT; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CULTURE MEDIA; EVOLUTION; NITROGEN; REPRODUCTION; SEX;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 33645115644     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.045302     Document Type: Article

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