Multiple Mating But Not Recombination Causes Quantitative Increase in Offspring Genetic Diversity for Varying Genetic Architectures

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Rueppell, Olav ^a   Meier, Stephen ^a   Deutsch, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASSORTATIVE MATING; EPISTASIS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; INSECT SOCIETY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATING; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PROGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84867536165     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047220     Document Type: Article

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