Fitness and microsatellite diversity estimates were not correlated in two outbred anuran populations

Heredity

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 558-565

  Rowe, Graham ^a   Beebee, Trevor J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anuran amphibians; Fitness; Heterozygosity; Mean d2; Microsatellites

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; LARVA; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT;

AMPHIBIA; BUFO CALAMITA; RANA TEMPORARIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FROG; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; TOAD;

ANIMALS; BUFONIDAE; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RANA TEMPORARIA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0035544131     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.2001.00944.x     Document Type: Article

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