Condition-dependent sex and the rate of adaptation

American Naturalist

Volumn 174, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Hadany, Lilach ^a   Otto, Sarah P ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abandon ship mechanism; Cost of sex; Facultative sex; Rate of adaptation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY CONDITION; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; REPRODUCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; MODELS, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL;

EID: 68549137876     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/599086     Document Type: Article

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