Why sex and recombination?

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 74, Issue , 2009, Pages 187-195

  Barton, N H ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME MAP; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MALE; MUTATION; REVIEW; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIATION; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX;

EID: 77957739592     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2009.74.030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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