A parasitic selfish gene that affects host promiscuity

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1770, 2013, Pages

  Giraldo Perez, Paulina ^a   Goddard, Matthew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fitness; Homing endonuclease gene; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Selfish gene; VDE

Indexed keywords

PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; VMA1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FITNESS; GENE EXPRESSION; HERITABILITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; YEAST;

GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; OAK; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SYMBIOSIS; VITIS;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; QUERCUS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRODUCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SYMBIOSIS; VITIS;

EID: 84902690179     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1875     Document Type: Article

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