Losing the desire: Selection can promote obligate asexuality

BMC Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  King, Kayla C ^a   Hurst, Gregory D D ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; WASP;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARTHENOGENESIS; SELECTION, GENETIC; WASPS;

EID: 77955093386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-101     Document Type: Note

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