Evolutionarily Stable Sex Ratios And Mutation Load

Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1915-1925

  Hough, Josh ^a   Immler, Simone ^b   Barrett, Spencer C H ^a   Otto, Sarah P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolutionarily stable strategy; gametophytic selection; heteromorphic sex chromosomes; mutation load; plant life cycles; sex ratio evolution

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; GENE EXPRESSION; LIFE CYCLE; MUTATION; POLYPLOIDY; POPULATION GENETICS; SELECTION; SEX RATIO;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; GAMETOPHYTIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HAPLOIDY; HETEROMORPHIC SEX CHROMOSOMES; MUTATION; MUTATION LOAD; PLANT; PLANT LIFE CYCLES; PLANT SEED; POPULATION GENETICS; SEX RATIO; SEX-RATIO EVOLUTION;

EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; GAMETOPHYTIC SELECTION; HETEROMORPHIC SEX CHROMOSOMES; MUTATION LOAD; PLANT LIFE CYCLES; SEX-RATIO EVOLUTION;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOIDY; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PLANTS; SEEDS; SEX RATIO;

EID: 84879788087     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12066     Document Type: Article

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