Rapid decline in fitness of mutation accumulation lines of gonochoristic (Outcrossing) caenorhabditis nematodes

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3242-3253

  Baer, Charles F ^a   Joyner Matos, Joanna ^a,b   Ostrow, Dejerianne ^a   Grigaltchik, Veronica ^a   Salomon, Matthew P ^a   Upadhyay, Ambuj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis brenneri; Caenorhabditis remanei; Mating system; Mutation rate; Mutational variance

Indexed keywords

AUTOGAMY; BIOACCUMULATION; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FITNESS; GENERATION TIME; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NEMATODE; OPTIMIZATION; OUTCROSSING; POPULATION DECLINE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS; CROSS BREEDING; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS REMANEI; NEMATODA;

EID: 77958617570     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01061.x     Document Type: Article

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