Amphibian malformations and inbreeding

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 549-552

  Williams, Rod N ^a   Bos, David H ^a   Gopurenko, David ^a   DeWoody, J Andrew ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambystoma tigrinum; Genetic diversity; Genetic variation; Tiger salamander

Indexed keywords

ABNORMALITY; ALLELE; AMPHIBIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; INBREEDING; RELATEDNESS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRACHYDACTYLY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTRODACTYLY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HETEROZYGOSITY; INBREEDING; LARVA; NONHUMAN; POLYPHALANGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALAMANDER;

AMBYSTOMA TIGRINUM; AMBYSTOMA TIGRINUM TIGRINUM; AMPHIBIA; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 51549098034     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0233     Document Type: Article

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