On the correlation between heterozygosity and fitness in natural populations

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2467-2474

  Hansson, Bengt ^a   Westerberg, Lars ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Associative overdominance; Fitness; Functional overdominance; Heterozygosity; Inbreeding; Linkage disequilibrium

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; DEER; ECOLOGY; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETICS, POPULATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HYBRID VIGOR; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SONGBIRDS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036900207     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2002.01644.x     Document Type: Review

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