What uses are mating types? The "developmental switch" model

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 947-956

  Perrin, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diploidy; Gametophyte; Haploidy; Meiosis; Sexes; Signaling; Sporophyte

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; DIPLOIDY; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HAPLOIDY; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DIPLOIDY; EUKARYOTA; HAPLOIDY; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; REPRODUCTION;

ALGAE; ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CILIOPHORA; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 84859444517     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01562.x     Document Type: Note

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