Current hypotheses for the evolution of sex and recombination

Integrative Zoology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 192-209

  Hartfield, Matthew ^a   Keightley, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution of sex; Fitness associated sex; Hill Robertson interference; Mutational deterministic hypothesis; Red Queen hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEX;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84868249010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17494877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-4877.2012.00284.x     Document Type: Article

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