Is mutation accumulation a threat to the survival of endangered populations?

Conservation Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1235-1241

  Gilligan, Dean M ^a   Woodworth, Lynn M ^a   Montgomery, Margaret E ^a   Briscoe, David A ^a   Frankham, Richard ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED POPULATION; GENETIC LOAD; MUTATION; POPULATION SIZE; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

EID: 0031404729     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1997.96215.x     Document Type: Article

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