Linking inbreeding effects in captive populations with fitness in the wild: Release of replicated Drosophila melanogaster lines under different temperatures

Conservation Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 189-199

  Kristensen, Torsten N ^a,b   Loeschcke, Volker ^b   Hoffmann, Ary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Drosophila melanogaster; Field fitness; Genotype and environment interactions; Inbreeding depression; Thermal stress

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE POPULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATION GENETICS; FITNESS; FLY; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; LABORATORY METHOD; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETICS; INBREEDING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; INBREEDING; MALE; REPRODUCTION; TEMPERATURE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 38849128793     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00816.x     Document Type: Article

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