Asexual Evolution: Can Species Exist without Sex?

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Hillis, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC SELECTION; ROTIFERA; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC SPECIATION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; ROTIFERA; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ROTIFERA;

EID: 34447262136     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.05.015     Document Type: Short Survey

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