Environmental dependence of inbreeding depression and purging in Drosophila melanogaster

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1125-1137

  Bijlsma, R ^a   Bundgaard, J ^b   Van Putten, W F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Conditional lethals and detrimentals; Conservation biology; Drosophila melanogaster; Environmental stress; Genotype environment interaction; Inbreeding depression; Purging; Recessive deleterious mutations

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FLY; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; NATURAL SELECTION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0032720331     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1420-9101.1999.00113.x     Document Type: Article

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