Sexual selection counteracts extinction of small populations of the bulb mites

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1283-1289

  Jarzebowska, Magdalena ^a   Radwan, Jacek ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Conservation; Good genes; Inbreeding depression; Mutation; Purging

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; GENETIC DRIFT; GOOD GENES HYPOTHESIS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; MITE; MONOGAMY; MUTATION; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MALE; MITE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; MALE; MITES; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ACARI; RHIZOGLYPHUS ROBINI;

EID: 77953849846     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00905.x     Document Type: Article

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