Correlated pedigree and molecular estimates of inbreeding and their ability to detect inbreeding depression in the Icelandic sheepdog, a recently bottlenecked population of domestic dogs

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1639-1641

  Ólafsdóttir, Gudbjörg Á ^a   Kristjánsson, Theódór ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Canis familiaris; Heterozygosity fitness correlations; Inbreeding; Multilocus heterozygosity

Indexed keywords

CANID; DOMESTIC SPECIES; EXTINCTION; GENETIC MARKER; HETEROZYGOSITY; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; RELATEDNESS;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 55949116662     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-008-9526-0     Document Type: Article

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