Frequency-dependent selection maintains clonal diversity in an asexual organism

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 46, 2008, Pages 17872-17877

  Weeks, Andrew R ^a   Hoffmann, Ary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clone; Genetic variation; Maintenance; Niche; Penthaleus major

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MESOCOSM; MITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CLONE CELLS; GENETIC VARIATION; MITES; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ACARI; PENTHALEUS MAJOR;

EID: 56649123433     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806039105     Document Type: Article

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