Effects of inbreeding on the genetic diversity of populations

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1434, 2003, Pages 1051-1070

  Charlesworth, Deborah ^a   Meagher, T R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Balancing selection; Diversity; Inbreeding; Isozymes; Linkage disequilibrium

Indexed keywords

GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; INBREEDING;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 0038643478     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1296     Document Type: Conference Paper

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