Diversity and the maintenance of sex by parasites

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 511-520

  Ashby, Ben ^a   King, K C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Drift; Matching allele; Red Queen; Simulation; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CLONAL ORGANISM; COEVOLUTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIATION; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; RED QUEEN HYPOTHESIS; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMAL; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; MARKOV CHAIN; PARASITE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITES; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SELECTION, GENETIC; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84926261068     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12590     Document Type: Article

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