Mitotic recombination counteracts the benefits of genetic segregation

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1615, 2007, Pages 1301-1307

  Mandegar, Mohammad A ^a   Otto, Sarah P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mitotic recombination; Model; Segregation; Waiting times

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; CYTOGENETICS; HETEROZYGOSITY; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; GENE SEGREGATION; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MITOSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MITOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 34250680227     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0056     Document Type: Article

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