Identifying fitness and optimal life-history strategies for an asexual filamentous fungus

Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 970-979

  Gilchrist, Michael A ^a   Sulsky, Deborah L ^b   Pringle, Anne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bang bang strategy; Clonality; Commensal; Mycology; Resource allocation; Saprophyte

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; FITNESS; FUNGUS; LIFE HISTORY; SPORULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EVOLUTION; FUNGI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 33747073207     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1554/05-261.1     Document Type: Article

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