Distortion of allele frequency distributions provides a test for recent population bottlenecks

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 238-247

  Luikart, G ^a,d   Allendorf, F W ^a   Cornuet, J M ^b   Sherwin, W B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 0031866781     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/89.3.238     Document Type: Article

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