Do population size bottlenecks reduce evolutionary potential?

Animal Conservation

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 255-260

  Frankham, Richard ^a   Lees, Kelly ^a,b   Montgomery, Margaret E ^a   England, Phillip R ^a   Lowe, Edwin H ^a   Briscoe, David A ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NSW AGRICULTURE   (Australia)

Author keywords

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DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0001049921     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S136794309900058X     Document Type: Article

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