The evolution of natural competence: Disentangling costs and benefits of sex in bacteria

American Naturalist

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Moradigaravand, Danesh ^a   Engelstädter, Jan ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Costs of sex; Evolution of sex and recombination; Fisher Muller effect; Natural competence; Natural transformation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DNA; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENOME; RECOMBINATION; SEX ROLE;

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; REPRODUCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA; DNA, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84883816323     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/671909     Document Type: Article

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