A threefold genetic allee effect: Population size affects cross-compatibility, inbreeding depression and drift load in the self-incompatible Ranunculus reptans

Genetics

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2255-2265

  Willi, Yvonne ^a,b   Van Buskirk, Josh ^b   Fischer, Markus ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE FERTILITY; FITNESS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC LOAD; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RANUNCULACEAE; SELF INCOMPATIBILITY;

ALLELES; ANGIOSPERMS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; VARIATION (GENETICS);

RANUNCULUS; RANUNCULUS FLAMMULA FILIFORMIS; TRIXIS;

EID: 18844379395     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.034553     Document Type: Article

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