Sex reduces genetic variation: A multidisciplinary review

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1088-1098

  Gorelick, Root ^a   Heng, Henry H Q ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Evolutionary genomics; Genetic variation; Genome theory; Sex; Variation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CANCER; CHROMOSOME; EUKARYOTE; FILTER; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; LITERATURE REVIEW; PALEONTOLOGY; PARADIGM SHIFT; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; NEOPLASM; POPULATION GENETICS; SEX;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MEIOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; SEX;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79953304054     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01173.x     Document Type: Article

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