The costs of sex: Facing real-world complexities

Quarterly Review of Biology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-40

  Meirmans, Stephanie ^a   Meirmans, Patrick G ^b   Kirkendall, Lawrence R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asexuality; Clonality; Parthenogenesis; Sexual reproduction; Taraxacum; Twofold cost of sex

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; DANDELION; EVOLUTION; MEIOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MEIOSIS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TARAXACUM;

TARAXACUM;

EID: 84858167691     PISSN: 00335770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/663945     Document Type: Review

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