Is life impossible? Information, sex, and the origin of complex organisms

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3300-3309

  Peck, Joel R ^a   Waxman, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Epistasis; Models simulations; Mutations; Population genetics; Sex

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EPISTASIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENOME; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; RECOMBINATION; SEX RATIO;

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENOME; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 77958590981     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01074.x     Document Type: Article

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