Age-specific effect of heterozygosity on survival in alpine marmots, Marmota marmota

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1491-1503

  Cohas, Aurélie ^a   Bonenfant, Christophe ^b   Kempenaers, Bart ^a   AllainÉ, Dominique ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Capture mark recapture; Inbreeding; Mammal; Microsatellite; Over dominance

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; SCIURIDAE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MARMOTA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

MAMMALIA; MARMOTA MARMOTA; MARMOTA MARMOTA MARMOTA; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 62849099273     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04116.x     Document Type: Article

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