Does inbreeding distort sex-ratios?

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 879-893

  Frankham, Richard ^a,b,c   Wilcken, Jonathan ^a,d  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Australasian Regional Association of Zoological Parks and Aquaria   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Drosophila melanogaster; Inbreeding depression; Sex ratio; Theory; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

FLY; INBREEDING; SEX RATIO; THEORETICAL STUDY; VERTEBRATE;

AVES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; METATHERIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33750959740     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-006-9129-6     Document Type: Article

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