Mutation accumulation in space and the maintenance of sexual reproduction

Ecology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 941-946

  Salathé, Marcel ^a   Salathé, Rahel ^a   Schmid Hempel, Paul ^a   Bonhoeffer, Sebastian ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cost of sex; Limited dispersal; Muller's ratchet; Mutation accumulation; Spatial structure

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; CLONE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENOMICS; MUTATION; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; VIRULENCE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; MUTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; EVOLUTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL;

EID: 33746672044     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00942.x     Document Type: Article

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