Consequences of clonality for sexual fitness: Clonal expansion enhances fitness under spatially restricted dispersal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 29, 2015, Pages 8929-8936

  Van Drunen, Wendy E ^a   Van Kleunen, Mark ^b   Dorken, Marcel E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asexual reproduction; Geitonogamy; Genet; Modularity; Ramet

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CLONAL VARIATION; FEMALE; FITNESS; GAMETE; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MATING SUCCESS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT REPRODUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; SEED DISPERSAL; SESSILE SPECIES; SEXUAL FUNCTION; ANIMAL; CELL CLONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SELF FERTILIZATION; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; CLONE CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC FITNESS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDS; SELF-FERTILIZATION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84937457956     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1501720112     Document Type: Article

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