Early detection of population fragmentation using linkage disequilibrium estimation of effective population size

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2425-2430

  England, Phillip R ^a   Luikart, Gordon ^b,c   Waples, Robin S ^d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^d NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Connectivity; Conservation; Effective population size; Fragmentation; Linkage disequilibrium; Monitoring; Ne

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVITY; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; WILD POPULATION;

EID: 78049362245     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-010-0112-x     Document Type: Article

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