Sex or no sex: Evolutionary adaptation occurs regardless

BioEssays

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 335-345

  Seidl, Michael F ^a   Thomma, Bart P H J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Asexual; Genome evolution; Meiosis; Mitosis; Recombination

Indexed keywords

SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA TRANSFER; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE CONVERSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PLANT DISEASE; POINT MUTATION; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSPOSON; VERTICILLIUM; VERTICILLIUM DAHLIAE; ZYMOSEPTORIA TRITICI;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

ADAPTATION; ASEXUAL; GENOME EVOLUTION; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; RECOMBINATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DAPHNIA; DNA REPAIR; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; GENOME, FUNGAL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; VERTICILLIUM;

EID: 84896736546     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201300155     Document Type: Article

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