Sex allocation and population structure in apicomplexan (protozoa) parasites
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Sex allocation and population structure in apicomplexan (protozoa) parasites.
Establishing the selfing, rate of parasites is important for studies in clinical and epidemiological medicine as well as evolutionary biology Sex allocation theory offers a relatively cheap and easy way to estimate selfing rates in natural parasite populations. Local mate competition (LMC) theory predicts that the optimal sex ratio (r*; defined as proportion males) is related to the selfing rat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.0995