Historical and recent genetic bottlenecks in European grayling, Thymallus thymallus

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 279-292

  Swatdipong, Akarapong ^a   Primmer, Craig R ^a   Vasemägi, Anti ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Genetic bottleneck; Heterozygosity excess test; M ratio; Microsatellite; Mode shift test; Thymallus thymallus

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; ISOLATED POPULATION; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION SIZE; RECOLONIZATION; SALMONID;

THYMALLUS THYMALLUS;

EID: 74749108705     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-009-0031-x     Document Type: Article

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