Selfish genetic elements favor the evolution of a distinction between soma and germline

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2122-2124

  Johnson, Louise J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolutionary transitions; Intragenomic conflict; Multicellularity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDOSYMBIONT; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSPOSON;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENES; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 47749100478     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00433.x     Document Type: Article

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