Asexual evolution: Do intragenomic parasites maintain sex?

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 3893-3895

  Crespi, Bernard ^a   Schwander, Tanja ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

adaptation; animal mating breeding systems; ecological genetics; evolution of sex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; WASP; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; WASPS; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84864411537     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05638.x     Document Type: Review

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