Local effects of inbreeding on embryo number and consequences for genetic diversity in Kerguelen mouflon

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 504-507

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fecundity; Genetic diversity; Inbreeding

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE; EMBRYO; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; INBREEDING; MORTALITY; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SHEEP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; INBREEDING; MOUFLON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

OVIS ARIES; OVIS ARIES MUSIMON;

EID: 51549106567     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0222     Document Type: Article

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