Predicting the deleterious effects of mutation load in fragmented populations

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 207-218

  Jaquiery J ^a   Guillaume, F ^b   Perrin, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Extinction time; Genetic structure; Habitat fragmentation; Metapopulation; Mutation load; Offspring viability

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; METAPOPULATION; MUTATION; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TIME;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58249100054     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01052.x     Document Type: Article

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