Evolutionary Genetics: Sex Happens in Giardia

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Logsdon Jr , John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GIARDIA; MEIOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GIARDIA; MEIOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION;

EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA;

EID: 38149133152     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.11.019     Document Type: Short Survey

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