Heterosis increases the effective migration rate

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1450, 2000, Pages 1321-1326

  Ingvarsson, Pär K ^a,b   Whitlock, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Drift load; Gene flow; Heterosis; Migration; Population structure; Recombination

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; HYBRID; MIGRATION; VIGOR;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DENSITY; FITNESS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HETEROSIS; HYBRID; MIGRATION; PARENT; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY;

EID: 0034617110     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1145     Document Type: Article

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