Unprecedented low levels of genetic variation and inbreeding depression in an island population of the black-footed rock-wallaby

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 531-541

  Eldridge, Mark D B ^e   King, Juliet M ^a   Loupis, Anne K ^e   Spencer, Peter B S ^b   Taylor, Andrea C ^e   Pope, Lisa C ^c   Hall, Graham P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d Perth Zoo   (Australia)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; GENETIC VARIATION; INBREEDING; ISLAND;

PETROGALE LATERALIS;

EID: 0033066209     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98115.x     Document Type: Article

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