Heterosis in an isolated, effectively small, and self-fertilizing population of the flowering plant Leavenworthia alabamica

Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 184-191

  Busch, Jeremiah W ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deleterious mutation; Extinction; Fitness; Genetic drift; Inbreeding; Local drift load; Mutational meltdown

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANGIOSPERM; AUTOGAMY; FITNESS; HETEROSIS; ISOLATED POPULATION; MUTATION; POPULATION MIGRATION; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION;

LEAVENWORTHIA ALABAMICA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

ARTICLE; BRASSICACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DRIFT; HETEROSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

BRASSICACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DRIFT; HYBRID VIGOR; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 33646676058     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1554/05-348.1     Document Type: Article

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