On the expected relationship between inbreeding, fitness, and extinction

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 371-387

  Theodorou, Konstantinos ^a   Couvet, Denis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Conservation; Deleterious mutation; Extinction; Genetic load; Inbreeding

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; FITNESS; INBREEDING; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; POPULATION GENETICS;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LOAD; GENETICS; INBREEDING; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SURVIVAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LOAD; INBREEDING; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745821589     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: 12979686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/gse:2006010     Document Type: Article

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