Research Catalog

Title

The Evolution of sex : an examination of current ideas / edited by Richard E. Michod and Bruce R. Levin.

Publication

Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates, ©1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Michod, Richard E.
• Levin, Bruce R.

Description

ix, 342 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Essays on the genetic aspects of sex, genetic recombination, and genetics and the evolutionary process by molecular biologists, population geneticists, and ecologists.

Subjects

• Aufsatzsammlung
• Évolution
• Recombinaison génétique
• Sexualität
• Rekombination
• Geschlechtsunterschied
• Genetik
• Evolution
• Genetic recombination
• Evolution (Biology)
• Sex (Biology)
• sex (biological characteristic)
• evolution
• Sex
• Recombination, Genetic
• Biological Evolution

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 300-332.

Contents

Introduction / Richard E. Michod and Bruce R. Levin -- The evolution of sex: a history of competing points of view / Michael T. Ghiselin -- Molecular aspects of genetic recombination / Raymond Devoret -- A possible role for meiotic recombination in germ line reprogramming and maintenance / Robin Holliday -- The importance of recombination / James F. Crow -- Sex and the evolution of recombination / Joseph Felsenstein -- The evolution of recombination rates / Lisa D. Brooks -- The evolution of recombination / J. Maynard Smith -- Uniformity and diversity in the evolution of sex / Graham Bell -- Is meiotic recombination an adaptation for repairing DNA, producting genetic variation, or both? / Harris Bernstein, Frederic A. Hopf, and Richard E. Michod -- The role of gene transfer in the evolution of eukaryotic sex / Donal A. Hickey and Michael R. Rose -- Parasites and sex / Jon Seger and W.D. Hamilton -- The evolution of sex in bacteria / Bruce R. Levin -- On the evolution of genetic incompatibility systems: incompatibility as a mechanism for the regulation of outcrossing distance / Marcy K. Uyenoyama -- Benefits and costs of biparental and uniparental reproduction in plants / David G. Lloyd -- Sex and adaptation / William M. Shields -- Sex differences in rates of recombination and sexual selection / Robert Trivers -- Retrospect on sex and kindred topics / George C. Williams.

ISBN

• 0878934588
• 9780878934584
• 0878934596
• 9780878934591

LCCN

87022520

OCLC

• ocm16758907
• 16758907
• SCSB-1701994

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library