What can genetics tell us about population connectivity?

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 3038-3051

  Lowe, Winsor H ^a   Allendorf, Fred W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Demographic connectivity; Drift; Emigration; F statistics; Gene flow; Genetic connectivity; Immigration; Inbreeding; Population dynamics; Source sink; Spatial ecology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; GENE FLOW; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 77954853768     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04688.x     Document Type: Article

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