• DOI:10.1007/BF01238258
Corpus ID: 31756267

Pathogens and sex in plants

@article{Parker2005PathogensAS,
  title={Pathogens and sex in plants},
  author={M. Parker},
  journal={Evolutionary Ecology},
  year={2005},
  volume={8},
  pages={560-584}
}

M. Parker

Published 2005

Biology

Evolutionary Ecology

SummaryExtant theories that attribute the evolution of sex to pathogen attack depend on the assumption that pathogens are narrowly specialized, so that high fitness on one host genotype results in poor fitness on hosts with other allele combinations. This assumption is necessary in order for frequency-dependent selection to produce sustained cycling of gametic disequilibrium across the host's disease resistance loci, which makes recombination advantageous. However, a review of numerous genetic… CONTINUE READING

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