Limits to the adaptive potential of small populations

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2006, Pages 433-458

  Willi, Yvonne ^a   Van Buskirk, Josh ^a,b   Hoffmann, Ary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Conservation biology; Evolvability; Genetic variation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DNA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; HERITABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33845396823     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.37.091305.110145     Document Type: Review

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