Fitness, genetic load and purging in experimental populations of the housefly

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 57-61

  Reed, David H ^a   Bryant, Edwin H ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottlenecks; Fitness; Genotype environment interaction; Inbreeding; Purging

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002699443     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011567018530     Document Type: Article

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