Genetic consequences of range expansions

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 40, Issue , 2009, Pages 481-501

  Excoffier, Laurent ^a,b   Foll, Matthieu ^a,b   Petit, Rémy J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c UMR 1202 BIOGECO   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Bioinvasion; Coalescent simulations; Introgression; Long range dispersal; Range expansion; Surfing

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; DEMOGRAPHY; GENE FLOW; GENOME; INTROGRESSION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARADIGM SHIFT; PERCEPTION; RANGE EXPANSION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 76449096202     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.39.110707.173414     Document Type: Article

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