Is sex necessary?

BMC Biology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sun, Sheng ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EDITORIAL; PHYSIOLOGY; YEAST;

MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; YEASTS;

EID: 80052268857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-9-56     Document Type: Note

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