Local drift load and the heterosis of interconnected populations

Heredity

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 452-457

  Whitlock, Michael C ^a   Ingvarsson, Pär K ^a   Hatfield, Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deleterious mutations; Heterosis; Hybrid fitness; Inbreeding depression; Migration; Population structure

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CROSSBREEDING; DELETION MUTAGENESIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DRIFT; HETEROSIS; HYBRID; INBREEDING;

GENETIC DRIFT; HYBRID; POPULATION GENETICS; VIGOR;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HYBRID VIGOR; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 0034124425     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.2000.00693.x     Document Type: Article

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