Importance of genetic variation to the viability of mammalian populations

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 320-335

  Lacy, Robert C ^a  

^a Daniel F and Ada L Rice Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Extinction; Genetic drift; Genetic variation; Inbreeding depression; Population viability

Indexed keywords

GENETIC VARIATION; MAMMAL; POPULATION ECOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031543851     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1382885     Document Type: Review

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