Introduction of captive breeders to the wild: Harmful or beneficial?

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-12

  Theodorou, Konstantinos ^a   Couvet, Denis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Captive breeding; Deleterious mutation; Genetic load; Relaxed selection; Supplementation

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE BREEDING; CONSERVATION GENETICS; EXTINCTION RISK;

EID: 1442338812     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:COGE.0000014052.60145.f9     Document Type: Article

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