A little bit of sex matters for genome evolution in asexual plants

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Hojsgaard, Diego ^a   Hörandl, Elvira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apomixis; Heterozygosity; Meselson effect; Muller s ratchet; Polyploidy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923229172     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00082     Document Type: Article

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