Inbreeding and extinction in a butterfly metapopulation

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6675, 1998, Pages 491-494

  Saccheri, Ilik ^a   Kuussaari, Mikko ^a   Kankare, Maaria ^a   Vikman, Pia ^a   Fortelius, Wilhelm ^b   Hanski, Ilkka ^a  

^a Division of Population Biology ^*  (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; INBREEDING; LOCAL EXTINCTION; METAPOPULATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; EGG PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOSITY; INBREEDING; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

LEPIDOPTERA; MELITAEA CINXIA; NYMPHALIDAE;

EID: 0032473978     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/33136     Document Type: Article

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