The Significance of Sex

BioSystems

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 156-161

  Annila, Arto ^a,b   Annila, Erkki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Entropy; Free energy; Natural process; Reproduction; The principle of least action; The two fold cost of sex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENTROPY; NATURAL SELECTION; PARTHENOGENESIS; ANIMAL; APHID; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; TIME;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; ENTROPY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARTHENOGENESIS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SELECTION, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84901486462     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: 18728324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2012.09.006     Document Type: Article

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