Quantifying the threat of extinction from Muller's ratchet in the diploid Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa)

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Loewe, Laurence ^a   Lamatsch, Dunja K ^b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DIPLOIDY; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOMICS; HABITAT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; POECILIA FORMOSA; POPULATION STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TRIPLOIDY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETICS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MUTATION; STATISTICS;

POECILIA FORMOSA;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DIPLOIDY; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POECILIA; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 42049110420     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-88     Document Type: Article

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