Is sexual conflict an “Engine of speciation”?

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Gavrilets, Sergey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SEX; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX;

EID: 84908419924     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a017723     Document Type: Article

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