Does sex speed up evolutionary rate and increase biodiversity?

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Melián, Carlos J ^a,b   Alonso, David ^c   Allesina, Stefano ^a,d   Condit, Richard S ^e   Etienne, Rampal S ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY;

ASEXUAL POPULATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; FASTER RATES; GENE COMBINATIONS; GENOMICS; HIGH RATE; SPEED UP; THEORETICAL STUDY;

BIODIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 84861109325     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002414     Document Type: Article

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