The variance in inbreeding depression and the recovery of fitness in bottlenecked populations

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1433, 1999, Pages 2061-2066

  Fowler, Kevin ^a   Whitlock, Michael C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bottlenecks; Drosophila melanogaster; Fitness variance; Inbreeding depression

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; POPULATION BOTTLENECK;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; HOMOZYGOSITY; INBREEDING; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VARIANCE;

ANIMALIA; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033595711     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0887     Document Type: Article

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