Empirical evaluation of a test for identifying recently bottlenecked populations from allele frequency data

Conservation Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 228-237

  Luikart, Gordon ^a,c   Cornuet, Jean Marie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

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EID: 0031956719     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1998.96388.x     Document Type: Article

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