Inbreeding depression due to mildly deleterious mutations in finite populations: Size does matter

Genetical Research

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 75-81

  Bataillon, Thomas ^a   Kirkpatrick, Mark ^b,c  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; HERMAPHRODITISM; INBREEDING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION GENETICS;

GENETICS, POPULATION; INBREEDING; MUTATION;

GOES;

EID: 0034054671     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672399004048     Document Type: Article

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