Genetic rescue of an insular population of large mammals

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1593, 2006, Pages 1491-1499

  Hogg, John T ^a   Forbes, Stephen H ^b,d   Steele, Brian M ^b   Luikart, Gordon ^c  

^a Montana Conservation Science Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation genetics; Genetic rescue; Immigration; Mammals

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; IMMIGRATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; REPRODUCTION; SHEEP; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FITNESS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRAIT; IMMIGRATION; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OUTBRED STRAIN; PEDIGREE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SHEEP; SURVIVAL RATE; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INBREEDING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; OVIS CANADENSIS;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKERS; INBREEDING; MALE; PEDIGREE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEEP; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33746234826     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3477     Document Type: Article

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