Severe inbreeding depression and rapid fitness rebound in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana (satyridae)

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2000-2013

  Saccheri, Ilik J ^a,b,d   Brakefield, Paul M ^a   Nichols, Richard A ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Division of Population Biology   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; fitness rebound; genetic load; inbreeding depression; Lepidoptera

Indexed keywords

BICYCLUS ANYNANA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; SATYRIDAE;

FITNESS; HATCHING; INBREEDING DEPRESSION;

EID: 0029659226     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb03587.x     Document Type: Article

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