Joint effects of inbreeding and local adaptation on the evolution of genetic load after fragmentation

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1618-1627

  Lopez, Sébastien ^a   Rousset, FranÇois ^a   Shaw, Frank H ^a,b   Shaw, Ruth G ^a,c   Ronce, Ophélie ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b HAMLINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Genetic load; Genetic rescue; Inbreeding; Local adaptation; Migration; Outbreeding depression

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENE FLOW; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INBREEDING; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; ISOLATED POPULATION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MIGRATION; NATURAL SELECTION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOME; INBREEDING; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOME; INBREEDING; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 70450252155     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01326.x     Document Type: Article

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