Cryptic fitness advantage: Diploids invade haploid populations despite lacking any apparent advantage as measured by standard fitness assays

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Gerstein, Aleeza C ^a   Otto, Sarah P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRAIT; GROWTH RATE; HAPLOIDY; NONHUMAN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SAMPLING; CYTOLOGY; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; FUNGAL GENOME; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; TIME;

BIOMASS; DIPLOIDY; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, FUNGAL; HAPLOIDY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 83055173235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026599     Document Type: Article

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