Unexpected heterozygosity in an island mouflon population founded by a single pair of individuals

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1609, 2007, Pages 527-533

  Kaeuffer, Renaud ^a,b   Coltman, David W ^c   Chapuis, Jean Louis ^d   Pontier, Dominique ^b   Réale, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Heterozygosity; Island population; Longitudinal study; Selection

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATION GENETICS; GENETIC ISOLATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; SELECTION; SHEEP; WILD POPULATION;

ARTICLE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HETEROZYGOTE;

FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; KERGUELEN ISLANDS;

OVIS ARIES; OVIS ARIES MUSIMON;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; GEOGRAPHY; HETEROZYGOTE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SHEEP, DOMESTIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34249944221     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3743     Document Type: Article

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