The many costs of sex

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 172-178

  Lehtonen, Jussi ^a   Jennions, Michael D ^a   Kokko, Hanna ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GENOME; REPRODUCTIVE COST;

ANIMAL; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENOME; MALE; MEIOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEX;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUKARYOTA; FEMALE; GENOME; MALE; MEIOSIS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SEX;

EID: 84857190672     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.09.016     Document Type: Review

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