Abandoning the ship using sex, dispersal or dormancy: multiple escape routes from challenging conditions.

Abstract excerpt

Natural populations often experience environments that vary across space and over time, leading to spatio-temporal variation of the fitness of a genotype. If local conditions are poor, organisms can disperse in space (physical movement) or time (dormancy, diapause). Facultatively sexual organisms can switch between asexual and sexual reproduction, and thus have a third option available to deal with...

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

• Share to Adaptation, Physiological
• Share to Environment