Effects of intense versus diffuse population bottlenecks on microsatellite genetic diversity and evolutionary potential

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 595-604

  England, Phillip R ^a,b   Osler, Graham H R ^a   Woodworth, Lynn M ^a   Montgomery, Margaret E ^a   Briscoe, David A ^a   Frankham, Richard ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

Allelic diversity; Drosophila melanogaster; Evolutionary potential; Heterozygosity; Microsatellites; Population bottleneck

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; HEAT TREATMENT; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY;

EVOLUTIONARY POTENTIAL;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

CONSERVATION GENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; POPULATION BOTTLENECK;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0141503912     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025639811865     Document Type: Article

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