Heterozygosity-fitness correlations within inbreeding classes: Local or genome-wide effects?

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-83

  Hansson, Bengt ^a   Westerberg, Lars ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fitness; Heterozygosity; Inbreeding; Linkage; Recombination

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DATA SET; FITNESS; GENETIC MARKER; HETEROZYGOSITY; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; RECOMBINATION;

EID: 38049024552     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-007-9309-z     Document Type: Article

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