Cooperation and the evolution of anisogamy

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 264, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 24-36

  Yang, Jiang Nan ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Sex evolution; Sperm competition; The basic units of natural selection; The inequality of sperm and eggs

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL STATE; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); GAMETE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; SPERM COMPETITION;

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATING; NATURAL SELECTION; OOCYTE; OOCYTE TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPERM; SPERM COMPETITION; SURVIVAL; ZYGOTE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENETIC FITNESS; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVUM; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX; SPERM TRANSPORT; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 77649238066     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.01.019     Document Type: Article

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